PRESENTED 



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reported, according to the minutes of the General Assembly, 
1901. It was decided that in all cases where copies are sold the 
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THE 

PRESBYTERY OF KANSAS CITY 

AND ITS PREDECESSORS 



1821=1001 



HISTORICAL SKETCHES 

AND 

STATISTICAL MATTER 



BY 

JOHN B; HILL 



PUBLISHED BY THE PRESBYTERY OF KANSAS CITY, 
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 



KANSAS CITY: 
The BupvD & Fletcher Printing Co, 
1901. 



PREFACE. 



Eighty years of exceedingly varied ecclesiastical history are herein 
reviewed. The period covered, though not longer than that of many 
lives still vigorous, extends from the earliest establishment of Foreign 
Mission work among the aboriginal inhabitants, through the exciting 
decades of frontier settlement, of ecclesiastic£fl and civil strife, and of 
reconstruction in Church and State, well into the present era of peace 
and prosperity. 

The writing of this book was by no means a self-appointed task. 
No instructions accompanied the unexpected announcement of the 
writer as the chairman of a newly formed Committee on Presbyterial 
History. Supposing, however, that every Committee is appointed 
for work, the effort to collect materials of every sort bearing upon the 
history of this Presbytery and vicinity was immediately begun. 
Printed blanks were sent out asking for such statistical data as found 
in pp. 45-73 and 82-95. All discoverable Minutes of the present Pres- 
bytery and of its predecessors were next carefully read and indexed, 
and the remaining portions of the Chronological Eegister prepared. 
An unsuccessful effort was then made to have the Register published 
and the Committee discharged. Instead of that, it was decided to 
publish a Presbyterial History, which should include the Register and 
also historical sketches, a map and illustrations. The result is here- 
with submitted. The effort to secure full illustration having failed, 
no illustrations are included except those of a few of the more promi- 
nent of the deceased ministers. 

In the preparation of this work much help has been obtained from 



the historical materials collected by my father, Dr. Timothy Hill, from 
occasional sketches published by him in the religions press, from the 
Annals of Kansas City Presbytery by Dr. John H. Miller, and from 
the Eeminiscences of the Presbytery of Lafayette by Dr Greorge Miller, 
the last two of which were published in pamphlet form by the Pres- 
bytery in 1888. The very large nse of quotation marks made through- 
out the present work only partially shows the pains taken to secure 
competent and contemporary information upon every subject treated. 
Such information has been freely used, wherever found, the effort be- 
ing more especially to trace beginnings than to detail routine progress. 
The failure of repeated ell)rts to obtain such information explains 
the meagerness or omission of certain sketches which deserve full treat- 
ment. 

Quite to the writer's surprise, comparatively little of the data 
for this book has been furnished by ministers and churches. The 
history is therefore far more an external history than was expected 
or desired. The work of the church membership and of its internal 
organizations could not be adequately presented by any rungle writer. 
At the writer's urgent request, editorial and other Committees have 
been appointed from time to time to assist in the work, eacTi of which 
has reminded him of those parishioners, so familiar to every Pastor, 
who excuse their showing him the tops of the heads instead of thoir 
faces by saying that they have perfect confidence that whatever he 
does will be all right without their watching. It is hoped that the 
Presbytery's vote to publish this work will not prove an altogether 
disappointing acceptance of a cat in a bag. 

That this publication may, in some way, lead to a wider inter- 
est in the beginnings of Church life in the West, to a better under- 
standing of its present conditions and needs, and to the publication of 
similar histories more adequately prepared than this could be, is the 
sincere desire and prayer of 

John B. Hill. 

Kansas City, Mo., September, 1901. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 

MAP OF THE PRESBYTERY Frontispiece 

PREFACE 3 

Contents 5 

PART I. INTRODUCTIOlSr. 

I. PRESBYTERIANISM IN MISSOURI 9 

1. Beginnings in Missouri 10 

2. Growth and Subdivision 12 

3. Controversies and Re-adjustments 15 

II. ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS 18-23 

1. The Making of Church History 19 

2. The Recording of Church History 20 

3. The Writing of Church History 22 

PART II. CHRONOLOGICAL REGISTER. 

1. Meeting and Officers 25 

2. Pastorates 30 

3. Permanent Committees .• 36 

4. Commissioners to the General Assembly 40 

5. Statistical Reports 44 

II. MINISTERIAL REGISTER 45-81 

1. Biographical . Data 45 

2. Dates of Ordination 73 

3. Nativity 75 

4. College Alumni - 76 

5. Seminary Alumni 78 

6. Candidates and Licentiates 80 

III. CHURCH REGISTER 82-99 

1. Name. 

2. County. 

3. Date and Committee of Organization. 

4. Presbyterial Connection. 

5. Buildings. 

6. Stated Supplies and Pastors. 

7. Groupings 96 

8. Communicants Reported 98 



CONTENTS. 

PART III. SKETCHES. 

PAGE 

I. SKETCHES OF PRESBYTERIES 100-113 

1. Harmony Mission and the First Presbytery of Osage 100 

2. Presbytery of Missouri, 1817-1844 236 

3. Presbytery of Upper Missouri, 1844-1857 104 

4. Presbytery of Lafayette, 1857-1870 105 

5. New School Work After the Civil War 110 

6. Presbyteries since the Reunion Ill 

11. SKETCHES OF MINISTERS 114-228 

1. Introduction to the Sketches 114 

2. Poem by Dr. H. D. Ganse 115 

3. Sketches of Former Ministers, arranged alphabetically llGff 

III. SKETCHES OF CHURCHES 229-328 

Arranged Alphabetically. 

PART IV. INDEXES. 

I. INDEX OF CHURCHES 329 

II. INDEX OF MINISTERS 831 



CONTENTS. 



PART V. ILLUSTRATIONS. 



PAGE 

MAP Frontispiece 

William m. cheever to face page 134 

SETH G. CLARK " " " 236 

GEORGE P. HAYS " " " 272 

TIMOTHY HILL " " " 166 

ROBERT IRWIN " " " 174 

GEORGE MILLER " " " 104 

WILLIAM C. REQUA " " " 44 

ROBERT S. SYMINGTON " " " 298 

ALEXANDER WALKER " « " 314 

JOHN L. YANTIS " " " 256 



INTRODUCTION. 



PRESBYTERIANISM IN MISSOURI.* 

BY REV. JOHN B. HILL, 

? 

Permanent Clerk of the Synod of Missouri. 

We are accustomed to trace the hand of God in the early history 
of onr country. We know how the best portions of this continent were 
gradually turned over to the best immigrants from the Protestant 
nations of the world. We know how both the American Church and 
the American State reached their present foremost rank among the 
world^s most potent and beneficent influences. Perhaps most of us do 
not know the religious history of our own State, Synod and Presbytery, 
a history as providential as that of the American Nation or of the 
Apostolic Church. 

To trace fully and accurately the history of the beginnings of Mis- 
souri Presbyterianism would require a volume instead of a half hour^s 
talk. Possibly in no other State does the history of our denomina- 
tion so fully combine the history of its beginnings in all the older 
States as it does in Missouri. Every Presbyterian immigrant that 
landed on American shores in Colonial days left his impression on his 
own times and directly assisted in the propagation of Presbyterianism 
in the Missouri of to-day. 

The two streams of Presbyterian immigration that met in this 
State in the early part of this now closing century had their sources in 
the far East. Each gathered volume and character from the States 
through which it passed on its way hither. From the southeast came 
the descendants of the Presbyterian settlers that so strongly influenced 
the early life of Virginia and the Carolinas, and later that of Tennessee 
and Kentucky. From the northeast came the descendants of Pilgrim 
and Puritan, of Netherlander and Huguenot, picking up on their way 
through Pennsylvania Scotch Covenanters and Irish refugees and 
representatives of other Reformed faiths. Each stream contributed 
valuable elements not found prominently in the other. Piety and 
zeal they both had; but the polity of the southern stream was the 
purer, the northern being more noticeable for its doctrinal and educa- 

*Part of an article read at a conference preliminary to the meeting of the 
Synod of Missouri in October, 1900, was originally prepared as an introduction to 
this volume. It is accordingly here reprinted, with notes and enlargements. 



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I^^^TRODUCTION. 



tional features. At first the southern stream was the stronger in num- 
ber of immigrants; but the northern brought the more ministers. 
Perhaps it would not be too much to say that the confluence of these 
two streams produced a purer type of Presbyterian doctrine and polity 
in Missouri than, at the time they first met, could have been found in 
any other portion of our country. What has since been done to preserve 
the heritage they left and to take possession of the State they claimed 
for Christ? 



I. 

BEGINNINGS IN MISSOURI. 

We cannot fully appreciate the history of Missouri Presbyterianism 
without at least a brief resume of the civil as well as the ecclesiastical 
history of the State, especially during its formative period. After the 
discovery of America, that portion of it now embraced in the State of 
Missouri was nominally first under the sovereignty of France until 
1763, then under that of Spain until l-SOO, then again under France 
until ceded to the United States, April 30, 1803. On October 1, 1804, 
it was included in the District of Louisiana, under the jurisdiction of 
Indiana Territory. On July 4, 1805, it became a part of Louisiana 
Territory. Just seven years later, July 4, 1812, Missouri Territory 
was organized. On August 10, 1821, the State of Missouri was ad- 
mitted into the Union, with the same boundaries as now, except that 
the Platte Purchase was added in 1836. The Indian rights were ex- 
tinguished by treaties of the United States with the various Indian 
claimants. 

The first American settlement in this state was probably that made 
in 1795, on Femme Osage creek, in St. Charles county. After that 
came other scattered families from various States, and found their 
homes mainly in the forests of the river counties of the eastern and 
central parts of the State. They were generally uneducated, often 
irreligious, but in the main much like other western pioneers, "a hardy, 
honest, friendly class of people, addicted to hospitality and friendly 
intercourse. Most of them came to the West because they wanted to 
be free — free from the restraints and shams of society and the domi- 
neering influences of money and aristocracy. A few came to evade the 
penalty of the laws they had violated at home; but there were not' 
many of this class, and, their standing and character being soon found 
out, they were shunned by the better class of people.'^* 

Up to the time of the Louisiana Purchase in 1808, the whole terri- 
tory embraced in that purchase, so far as it was Christian at all, was 
necessarily Roman Catholic. TJie first Protestant preaching in all this 

•Pioneer Families of Mo., by Bryan and Rose, p. 66. 



BEGINNINGS IN MISSOUEI. 



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vast region is said to have been by the Baptists, possibly while it was 
still French territory. Next are said to have come the Methodists, then 
the Cumberland Presbyterians, then the Presbyterians. In 1814 the 
Kev. S. J. Mills and his associate, the Rev. Daniel Smith, came to St. 
Lonis as agents of the Philadelphia Bible and Missionary Society. 
"They preached several times, organized a Bible Society, and collected 
$300 for it. This is the first trace we get of Presbijteran preaching in 
Missouri.^^* It is interesting to note that this was only a few years 
after the birth of American Foreign Missions at the famous Williams 
College haystack prayer meeting, of which Mills was the leader. De- 
prived of the privilege of becoming a Foreign Missionary, he did 
pioneer Mission work in his own land. 

In response to the reports of Mr. Mills, came the first Presbyterian 
minister to settle in the State. He was the Rev. Salmon Giddings, 
of Connecticut, who arrived in April, 1816. He held the first Presby- 
terian communion service in the State, July 21, 1816. The first Pres- 
byterian organizations among us were those he formed : Concord, 
August 2, 1816, (at Bellevue Settlement, Washington Co., 80 miles 
south of St. Louis), and Bonhomme, (St. Louis Co.), October 3, of 
the same year. The third Presbyterian organization in the State and 
the First Protestant church in the city of St. Louis, was the First Pres- 
byterian Church, organized by Mr. Giddings, November 2^, 1817. This 
church erected in 1819 the first Protestant house of worship in the city 
of St. Louis. The first Presbytery of Missouri was organized by the 
Synod of Tennessee in 1817, and held its first meeting in the city of 
St. Louis, December 8, 1817. 

The first Missionary Societies of our denomination that were rep- 
resented in the State were those of New England. The Harmony Mis- 
sion, on the south line of Bates county, was begun among the Osage 
Indians in 1821, only five 3^ears after the first Presbyterian minister 
came to live in the State. ^ It was started by the United Foreign 
Missionary Society, an organization supported by the Presbyterian, 
Dutch Reformed and Associate Reformed Churches. In 1826 that 
Society was absorbed by the A. B. C. F. M., which thereafter main- 
tained the Mission untii its abandonment in 1836. The earliest Home 
Missionaries in Missouri were commissioned by the Connecticut Home 
Missionary Society and by the United Domestic Missionary Society. 
Some of the early laborers were sent out by the Presbyterian Board 
of Home Missions, organized in 1816; but after the organization of 
the American Home Missionary Society in 1826, they and nearly all 
others that came out sought commissions from the A. H. M. S., which 
promised a more liberal, though meagre, support. It is noticeable that 
many of the Missionaries sent out by these Societies were originally 

♦Historical Outlines' of the Presbyterian Church in Mo., by T. Hill, 1871, p. 4. 

fThere also was made in 1822, the first church organization in Kansas City 
Presbytery. The oldest Presbyterian organization now within our territory, how- 
ever, is that of the Boonville church, which was originally organized on the north 
side of the IMissouri River, in 1821. This was the eighth church organized in the 
Synod. The history of Kansas City Presbytery is thus substantially synchronous 
with that of the State of Missouri, which was admitted into the Union in 1821. 



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Congregationalists ; yet, when they reached the West, they organized 
Presbyterian churches and Presbj^teries, apparently as a matter of 
course, fully understood and approved by the Societies they represented. 
In so doing they reversed the "Xew England way," which Dr. H. M. 
Dexter has characterized as a "Congregationalized Presbyterianism,*** 
[having] its roots in one system and its branches in another." After 
the organization of the Old School and New School Synods, the 0. S. 
work was carried on through the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions 
and the N. S. work through the A. H. M. S. The Missouri Home 
Missionary Society was organized by the N"ew School Convention of 
1841 as an auxiliary to the A. H. M. S. It was the earnest wish and 
strenuous endeavor of its founder, the Eev. Dr. Artemas Bullard, that 
through it the Missouri Synod might become strong enough to sus- 
tain all its own Mission work. But after the lapse of sixty years that 
consummation is still far from reached. 



II. 

GROWTH AND SUB-DIVISION. 

The organization of the original Presbytery of Missouri is thus 
described by the late Dr. E. F. Hatfield, who became one of its members 
a few years later. After telling of the first ministers and churches in 
this State, he says : "Here now were four ministers of the Gospel, 
good and true, enough to constitute a Presbytery, if only the proper 
authority could, be obtained * ^' * The nearest Synod north of the Ohio 
river was the Synod of Ohio. Many of the people had migrated from 
Tennessee, and were of Southern affinities. Application was made 
accordingly to the Synod of Tennessee at their annual meeting early in 
October, 1817, for the organization of a Presb3^tery beyond the Missis- 
sippi Eiver, to be called the Presbytery of Missouri, to consist of the 
four ministers just named, and representatives of the two churches. 
Concord and Bonhomme, already organized. A church having been 
constituted at St. Louis N'ovember 15, 1817, and the Buffalo church 
by Mr. Matthews in Pike county shortly after, the Presbytery of Mis- 
souri was duly constituted at St. Louis on Thursday, December 18, 
1817, consisting of Eev. Timothy Flint, Eev. John Matthews, Eev. 
Salmon G-iddings, Eev. Thomas Donnell and Elders from the Con- 
cord, Bonhomme, St. Louis and Buffalo churches."* 

The Presbytery thus organized covered not only the whole State of 
Missouri but also the western two-thirds of Illinois, in which there was 
at that time not a single church. In October, 1828, it was transferred 
by the General Assembly to the care of the Synod of Indiana. In J anu- 
ary, 1829, the Illinois ministers and churches were set off as the Presby- 

*Minutes of Semi-Ceutennial Session of Synod of Mo., U. S. A., 1882, p. 42. 



GROWTH AiN^D SUB-DIVISIO^^T. 



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teiy of Kaskaskia. The latter PresbA^tery was divided in October, 1830, 
into three Presbyteries, which, with the Presbytery of Missouri, the 
General Assembly organized into the Synod of Illinois, which first met 
in Hillsborough, 111., in September, 1831. By the Synod of Illinois 
the Presbytery of Missouri was then divided into three Presbyteries, 
which the next spring were erected by the General Assembly into the 
original Synod of Missouri. This Synod held its first meeting in St. 
Lonis, October 2, 1832. It contained bnt eighteen ministers, twent}^- 
five churches, and about 1,000 communicants. It consisted of the Pres- 
bytery of St. Louis, covering most of the eastern part of the State, the 
Presb3'tery of St. Charles, covering the northeastern part, and the 
diminished Presbytery of Missouri, covering the remainder of the State. 

The next change that came arose from controversies originating 
entirely outside of this Synod. For some 3'ears after the general disrup- 
tion of 1837, the Missouri Presbyterians remained united and declined 
to connect with either Assembly. But at last, in 1840, the division 
came. The Civil Courts gave to fJie Old School Synod of Missouri the 
records and the succession. It therefore kept the same Presbyterial 
names and boundaries as before, except that the name of St. Charles 
Presb3^tery (which was somewhat reduced in area in 1840) was changed 
to Palymra Presbytery. In 1843 the Presbytery of Potosi was formed 
out of the southern part of the Presbytery of St. Louis, and the Pres- 
bytery of Upper Missouri^ out of the western ]^art of the Persbytery of 
Missouri. In the fall of 1856 Synod erected that portion of the 
Presbytery of tapper Missouri lying south of the Missouri river into the 
Presbytery of Lafayette.' In 1860 a few counties in the northeast 
corner of the State were set off as the Presbytery of Wyaconda, which, 
after the Civil War, was re-united with the Presbytery of Palmyra. In 
1865 all that portion of the Presbytery of Lafavette lying south of the 
Osage river was set olf as the Presbytery of Southwest Missouri. 

Meanwhile the General Assembly of 1857 had authorized the form- 
ation of two Presbyteries in the State of Kansas to be called Kansas and 
Highland (the former was never organized), which with the Presby- 
teries of Upper Missouri and Lafayette, the Assembly then erected into 
the 0. S. Synod of Upper Missouri. At its first meeting this new 
Synod set off six northwestern counties of Missouri as the Presbytery 
of Platte. The Presbytery of Highland was later divided into the 
Presbyteries of Highland, Leavenworth and Topeka, which by the Gen- 
eral Assembly of 1864 were organized into the 0. S. Synod of Kansas. 
The remaining Presbyteries of the Svnod of Upper Missouri had be- 
come so weakened by the years of civil strife that the same General As- 
sembly dissolved the Synod, re-attached the territory of the Presbytery 
• of Platte to the Presbytery of Tapper Missouri, and re-attached the 

1. The Presbytei-y of Fpper Missouri originally included all tliat portion of the 
State west of the line'dividing Ranges 23 and 24 V\'. of the Fifth Principal Meridian. 
In 1853 Synod changed the eastern boundary to the Grand River north of the 
Missouri River, and on the south of the Missouri River to a true naeridian line be- 
ginning opposite the mouth of North Grand River, and running to the south bound 
ary of the Synod. 

2. The Eastern boundary of Lafayette was afterward slightly extended. 



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Pi-esbyteries of Upper Missouri and Lafayette to the Synod of Missouri. 

The Presbyteries formed in connection with the Declaration and 
Testimony controversy will be spoken of later. Aside from them, the 
forenamed Presbyteries are^ I believe, all that were connected with the 
0. S. Svnods of Missouri and Upper Missouri before the Ee-union of 
1870. 

Preliminary to the organization of the New School Synod of Mis- 
souri, a Convention was held at Hannibal, October 7, 1841. Its first 
resolution was to form a Missouri Home Missionary Society, auxiliary 
to the A. H. M. S. A committee was also appointed to draw up a 
paper called "Declaration and Sentiments." It was arranged that 
three Presbyteries should be organized that fall, which in the spring 
following should be erected into a Synod of Missouri. That Synod 
was organized in St. Louis, April 8, 1842, ten years after the formation 
of the original Synod of Missouri. Its Presbyteries were : 1. The 
Presbytery of Harmony, including the counties of Wayne, Ripley, 
Crawford and Gasconade, and thence west with the Osage River, in- 
cluding the counties of St. Clair and Bates. 2. The Presb3^tery of 
Lexington, including the counties of Callaway, Audrain and Macon, 
thence with the dividing ridge of the Grand Prairie to the boundary line 
of the State, including all between these lines and the State lines north 
of the Presbytery of Harmony. 3. The remainder of the State consti- 
tuting the Presbytery of St. Louis. Of these the Harmony Presbytery 
was the direct outgrowth of the Harmony Mission to the Osage Indians, 
already mentioned as having been begun in Bates county, in 1821. The 
leader of that Mission, the Rev. ^sT. B. Dodge, was the first Moderator 
of the N. S. Synod. In November, 1823, the Missionaries in 
Harmony, LTnion and Dwight Missions formed an Association 
which they called the Indian Mission Presbytery. It is sometimes re- 
ferred to as the Presbytery of Arkansas. Under the name of Harmony 
Presbytery it was one of the original Presbyteries in the ^T. S. Synod, 
by which its name was changed in 1846 to Osage Presbytery. By the 
last name it was known until, in 1859, a portion of it united with the 
body known as Dr. Ross' Sjmod, and took the records with them. The 
remaining ministers and churches went partly into the N. S. Presbytery 
of St. Louis, to which its territory was then annexed, and partly into 
the 0. S. Presbj^tery of Lafayette.* 

In October, 1843, the northern portion of the Presbytery of St. 
Louis was set off as the Presbytery of Northern Missouri^ taking that 
portion of the ministers and churches of the old Presbytery of St. 
Charles that adhered to New School principles. From 1857 to 1859 
the Synod withdrew from the General Assembly and remained inde- 
pendent. Strong efforts were made to have it unite, as its Presbytery 
of Osage did, with the United S.ynod of the South (Dr. Ross' Synod), 
or with the Old School Synod, as many of its individual members did. 

*The Presbytery of Lexington, which also covered a part of the territory aow 
covered by the Presbytery of Kansas City, likewise voted to go to Dr. Ross' Synod, 
but its separation was never fully consummated. 



GROWTH AND SUB-DIVISIOK. 



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Meanwhile the N. S. Presbytery of Kansas was organized, May 3, 1859. 
For the First year it was attached to the Synod of Iowa ; but in 1860 
it was transferred to the Synod of Missouri, of which it remained a part 
until the fall of 1868. At that meeting of Synod the new Presbyteries 
of Humboldt and Smoky Hill (both in Kansas), were organized, and 
by the next General Assembly set off with the Presbytery of Kansas 
as the Synod of Kansas, meeting of the N. S. Synod of Missouri 
could be held either in 1861 or in 1862. Its members were all strongly 
loyal to the Union, and found it inconvenient to meet in their own State 
in 1863 also, at which time a small but deeply spiritual and intensely pa- 
triotic meeting was held in Troy, Kansas. One other meeting was held 
in Kansas, that of 1867, at Lawrence. After the War the Presbytery 
of Osage was re-organized with its former boundaries, but with en- 
tirely new ministers, and with churches composed mainly of new mem- 
bers, recently re-organized. The work of the Synod was thereafter so 
vigorously pushed in all its Presbyteries that at the Eeunion of the 
two Schools in 1870 it showed a larger membership both of ministers 
and communicants than it had ever had before the War. 

Reference has been made in this paper to so many divisive forces 
that, before proceeding farther, it may be well to look briefly at our 



III. 

CONTROVERSIES AND READJUSTMENTS, 

The various controversies that have agitated and split the Presby- 
terian bodies of this country are well known. It is unnecessary here 
to enter upon a discussion of them ; but we cannot understand the work 
done without at least a summarization of the issues that have most af- 
fected this State. Fortunately none of the great dividing questions 
originated in Missouri ; but unfortunately, in all matters of Church and 
State, Missouri has been on the border line. Its first impulse has ever 
been to maintain the old relations unchanged, even at the expense of 
unsatisfactory compromise. In all the conflicts of the past eighty years 
since its admission into the Union, Missouri has 'been strongly repre- 
sented on both sides. 

The division of 18S7, that split the denomination into Old and 
New School bodies, was, as we have seen, lamented and deplored by this 
Synod, which refused to identify itself with either party. Even when 
the two rival Synods of Missouri were organized, men hardly knew with 
which to take their stand, and there was for years a constant shifting 
process going on that finally put many into the opposite party from that 
in which they began. For this, however, there were in this State causes 
aside from doctrinal conviction. 

In the former days slavery was not by any means a dead issue in 



mTKODUCTIOi^r. 



Missouri. The New School Church was so strongly anti-slavery that, 
after the decisive action of its General Assembly of 1857 upon that sub- 
ject, all its Synods in the slaveholding States withdrew. The Missouri 
Synod remained independent from 1857 to 1859, when the remnant of 
it returned to its former allegiance. Many of its members, as we have 
incidentally seen, went into the United Synod of the South, which was 
organized in 1858, and in 1864 united with "the General Assembly of 
the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America.''^ "In 
the Old School there was but little discussion on that subject [slavery], 
and the generally understood public sentiment of Missouri was that 
nothing should be said against the institution. Consequently, so far as 
Missouri was concerned, there was a constant tendency on the part of 
those in the New School who wished for quiet to leave that body and 
enter the Old.^^ 

The America7i Home Missmiary Society. "Not only the slave 
question troubled the New School. They were at length greatly an- 
noyed in all their missionary work by their connection with the A. H. 
M. S., and were finally entirely cut off some time before the general 
separation of the New School from the A. H. M. S. It was well under- 
stood that the A. H. M. S. Avould commission no man that was himself 
a slave-holder ; and no fault was found with that arrangement, for the 
Mo. H. M. S. could take care of the very few who stood in that rela- 
tion, [but six all told in the history of the Synod]. But at length it 
was demanded that the Mo. H. M. S. should come under the same rule, 
and that no church should be aided in which there were slave-holding 
members, unless in the judgment of the Committee managing the A. H. 
M. S., such relation was for the time being justifiable, thus going be- 
hind the judgment of Presb3^tery itself. The end of the matter was the 
entire separation of the whole Church from the A. H. M. S., and the 
formation of a Home Mission Committee by the General Assembly, 
which entered upon its work with immediate success. 

The Civil War wrought great havoc all over the State, particularly 
on the western border. The Christian work of forty years was almost 
entirely wiped out. In many cases there was nothing left to re-organize. 
At the close of the war work had to be begun by new ministers, under 
new conditions, in neAv places, with new people. 

" The Declaration and Testimony. The effect of the political de- 
liverences of the Old School Assembly of 1861 is well known. That 
fall the Missouri Synod "unanimously declared that the Assembly of 
1861 had in the notorious Spring resolutions taken an action that was 
unwise, unscriptural and unjust, and of no binding force whatever on 
this Synod, nor upon the members of the Presbyterian Church within 
its bounds."^ It remained however, in the Old School Assembly. In 
the fall of 1865 the majority of its members signed the "Declaration" 
and Testimony.^^ Then came the Gurley ipso facto order, declaring the 
dissolution of such Presbyteries and Synods as should allow the seating 

1. Hist. Ontl. Presb'm. in Mo., T. Hill. p. 27. 

2. The Sonthern Presbyterians, by T. C. Johnson, p. 452. 



CONTEOVERSIES AND READJUSTMENTS. 17 



of a signer of the Declaration and Testimony. This Synod then de- 
clared the Standards of the Chnrch authoritative above the order of any 
Church Court, and resolved that "the signers of the Declaration and 
Testimony are not slanderers, schismatics and rebels against ecclesias- 
tical authority, but have simply exercised a great Protestant right and 
discharged a solemn duty.^'^ Calling themselves the Old School (or 
Constitutional) Synod of Missouri, they therefore became independent 
of the General Assembly, and so remained until 1874, when they united 
with the Presbyterian Church in the United States. The minority 
withdrew in 1866, and re-organized, out of those members and churches 
in each Presbytery loyal to the Assembly, the Old School (or Assem- 
bly's) S3mod of Missouri, which was the one that in 1870 united with 
the New School Synod, and formed the Synod of Missouri now in con- 
nection with the Northern General Assembly.^ 

The last thirty years, i. e., since the Reunion, have been a time of 
peace and work. The controversies that have arisen since the Reunion 
have not been such as to cause division. Coming at a time of great com- 
mercial development and material prosperity, the Reunion ushered in a 
new era of mutual confidence and united activity that soon entirely 
obliterated the old lines. The State was then carefully re-districted 
into Presbyteries bearing the same names and with substantially the 
same boundaries as now, with the exception of the Presbytery of Potosi 
in the southeast corner of the State, which was later merged into the 
Presbytery of St. Louis. The only other noteworthy cEanges have been 
in the State of Arkansas, which now forms part of the territory of the 
Northern Synod. In January, 1889, the Presbytery of White River 
was organized by a Commission from the Synod of Missouri, to work 
among the Freedmen of southeastern Arkansas. A few churches were 
also organized from time to time among the white people of the State, 
and attached to various adjoining Presbyteries. In 1899 several of the 
northern counties of Arkansas^ were attached to the Presbytery of 
Ozark, and the remainder of the State of Arkansas assigned to the 
Presbytery of "White River. [P. S.. In 1900 the remaining counties 
of the western tier were annexed to the Presbytery of Ozark] . 

A large number of churches were organized in this Sjoiod soon after 
the War, most of which, in spite of years of financial panic, grasshop- 
pers, drought, business depression and general worldliness have shown 
commendable Presbyterian perseverence and usefulness. There has 
recently been but small growth in the number of organizations, but a 
fairly steady and satisfactory growth in membership and benevolences. 

1. lb., p. 4,53. 

2. The Presbyteries at work in the region covered Pinee the Rpiinion by the Pres- 
bytery of Osage (now Kansas City) were : 1. Old School, a. Lafayette, occupying 
nearly all our present territory. 6. Missouri, occupying a little of the eastern por- 
tion, c. Southwest Missouri, occupying a little of the southern portion. 2. New 
School, a. Lexington, occupying the Missouri River counties and Cass, Johnson ana 
Pettis, h. Osage, occupying the territory south of Lexington, c. St. Louis, occupy- 
ing a little of the eastern portion. The only additions to our territory since the Re- 
union have been: a Vernon county, detached from the Presbytery or Ozark, 1874; 
and, I), the northwest corner of Cedar county, ditto, 1884. 

3. Once a part of the Presbytery of Harmony. 



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Our conditions being now more stable and better understood, our terri- 
tory thoroughly settled and rapidly developing, our- churches well lo- 
cated and ably manned, progress depends upon the blessing of God and 
the Christian spirit and fidelity of those that work in His name. With 
a harmonious and energetic Synod, the first quarter of the twentieth 
century ought to mark a far greater advance for Christ than the past 
eighty years have done. . "There remaineth yet very much land to be 
possessed.^^ 



IV. 

ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS.* 

Historical studies are fascinating, though not always profitable. 

"Histories," says Carlyle, "are as perfect as the historian is wise, and 
is gifted with an eye and a soul." Such men are rare, even among his- 
torians. Philosophic history, however brilliant, is often untrue, the 
facts being twisted (perhaps unconsciously) to suit preconceived 
theories. Plain, unvarnished chronicles are usually dry and uninter- 
esting except for the antiquarian. Most lives and associations are 
hopelessly common-place. Yet every life — individual, social, national, 
commercial, political or religious — might become both interesting and 
instructive if properly understood and presented. Whatever therefore 
may be our positions in life, every earnest seeker to make the most of 
himself and of his opportunities, every lover of his fello^^nien and of 
his country, every servant of his age and of his God, becomes inevitably 
a student of History. 

Especially must the minister of the gospel familiarize himself with 
the history' of other ages, lands and peoples than his own. Everything 
historic has an interest to him and a bearing on his work. Dean 
Stanley says in his History of the Jewish Church (III. xxv) : "It 
was a saying of Scotus Erigena that whatsoever is true Philosophy is 
true Theology. In like manner on a large scale, whatever is true 
History teaches true Religion, and every attempt to reproduce the ages 
which immediately preceded or which accompanied the advent of 
Christianity is a contribution, however humble, to the understanding 
of Christianity itself." That is possibly equally true of the history 
of every Christian age or organization. God^s purposes for the future 
are revealed by His dealings in the past and His guidance in the 
present. 

*The following paper was read by the compiler of this book at a meeting of the 
Presbyterian Alliance of Kansas City, Oct. 9, 1899. The Alliance is composed of 
ministers of all the Presbyterian denominations resident in Kansas City and vicin- 
ity. The paper is inserted here as strictly germane to the subject matter of this 
book, and largely the outgrowth of the effort to secure the materials for the book 
itself. The subject of Ecclesiastical Records is one that deserves more attention 
from almost every Minister and Elder than it receives. It is hoped that every reader 
of this paper will make it a part of his duty to do all he can for the proper record- 
ingj keeping and dissemination of such records. 



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But while all Histor}^ is of interest and value to the preacher, — 
while for him all History is in a sense Sacred History — life is too 
short and too earnest to master all History. Church History has for 
him a special significance. In one sense he may say with Terence: 
"Homo sum; humani nihil a me alienum puto." But Dr. Philip 
Schaff was more specific and more practical, when he changed the 
phrasing of the heathen poet, and placed as the motto of his greatest 
work: ''Christianus sum; Cliristiani nihil a me alienum puto/' The 
busy pastor will have to restrict his inquiries still more. For most of 
us the merest outline must suffice in General History, and but little 
more in Church History. But must the pastor always be content with 
those outlines of History he obtained in his college and seminary days ? 
He cannot easily retain even those very long. How can he best re- 
fresh his memory upon them, and enlarge his historical knowledge? 
Certainly not by cursory reading. Certainly not without systematic 
effort. Certainly not by mere absorption of facts he does not assimi- 
late and use. 

Dr. William Barrows once wrote : "There is probably no depart- 
ment of education where so much is really acquired and so little made 
available as in History. It is too much like botanizing with a mowing 
machine and a raker, with a hay-loft for the herbarium.^^ Much His- 
tory is thus spoiled in the making. We cannot become botanists with- 
out studying the carefully prepared herbaria of our predecessors, rjid 
also going out ourselves into the fields to gather and preserve specimens 
of our own. To understand Botany we must become botanists — not 
mere farmers or horticulturists. To understand History we must our- 
selves do some original work in History. We must not let any historian 
do all our thinking for us. Our conclusions must coincide with his 
only as we see reasons for believing his correct. To appreciate God's 
hand in History we must believe that it is full as potent in the present, 
whose history has not been written, as in any past age. That present we 
cannot understand without reference to the past of which it is the suc- 
cessor and the outgrowth. We must each for himself collate and cor- 
relate the facts of the fleeting present, and study their actual genesis 
and their probable exodus. To get the best results each student must 
also contribute to the common fund the results of his own investigations 
and the record of his own work. 

Leaving the wider subject with these general remarks, let us now 
turn to the narroAver one of the Minister's Relations to Ecclesiastical 
History. These are many and various, and might easily be still more 
important than they are. 

1. In the Making of Church History the Minister necessarily has 
a large part. It is his duty to lead in the service of God. He is to 
magnify his oflfice, not for his own glory but for the efficiency of the 
whole body of Christ of which he is a member. In this presence it is 
not necessary to say more on this point unless a word of caution — the 
Minister is a member of the body in which there are other members, 



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each having his own office. The Minister may be the leader of tlie 
work in a local chnrch ; but he is not — cannot be — the only workman. It 
is often easier to do some little thing than to get some one else to do 
his duty in reference to that thing ; bnt such a course is not often wise. 
Remember Moodj-'s maxim : "It is better to put ten men at work than 
to do ten men's work.'' Xowhere is this more important to bear in 
mind than in the prayer meeting. 

But though the average Pastor knows and does his duty in this 
matter of making Church History, there seems to your essayist to be 
need for much more care in 

2. The Recording of Church History. Much more Histor}^ — and 
valuable History too — is made than is ever recorded. You are inLer- 
ested in the history of others ; others are interested in your history. 
It will be an encouragement, a guide, a warning, perhaps, for tliem. 
Elijah never would have fled to Horeb, had he known beforehand of tlie 
7000 knees that had never bowed to Baal. Our Savior tells us to let 
our light shine, to scatter our salt, to use our talents. We are to teach 
others the lessons taught us, as well as to remember the lessons others 
have been taught. We are to "call to rememberance the former days" 
(Heb. 10:32) of our own experience not only, but to "remember the 
days of old, consider the years of many generations," (Deut. 32:7). 
These lessons are to be communicated to us and by us : "Ask thy 
father and he will show thee ; thy elders and they will tell thee," (Deut. 
32:7). Unless each generation does its duty in recording and in trans- 
mitting History, it will not be possible for the later generations to say 
with the Psalmist (4:4: :1) : "We have heard with our ears, 0 God, 
our fathers have told us, what work Thou didst in their days, in the 
times of old." What are we doing to carry out these biblical examples 
and precepts ? 

The Presb^^terian Churches stand for clear thinking, accurate 
scholarship, unswerving fidelity to God's Word and perseverance in His 
work. They have. a wide reputation for doing things decently and in 
order. Every historian accords them an important part in the his- 
tory of the world's evangelization. Their members strive to address 
themselves intelligently to every problem. Theories are of interest 
only as they fit the facts. Historical studies are naturally the Presby- 
terians' delight. Such denominations may reasonably be expected to 
gather facts from every available source, systematize them and record 
them carefully. Their various organizations meet frequently to study 
the work going on in their respective bounds, and to plan for still larger 
things for Christ and His Church. But are the records in any of our 
denominations adequately kept ? Do we have as thorough a knowledge 
as we might and should have of God's dealings with us? Are our 
plans for work as intelligent as He holds us responsible for making? 

It is as important that one should know where he is as to know 
where he wishes to go. These two points being fixed, a route -can be 
chosen with some idea whether it leads from one to the other. One of 



ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS. 



21 



the most vital questions a Pastor ever asks — one he should ask fre- 
quently — is that so vividly phrased by a bewildered statesman :^ ^Where 
am I at?" Capt. Watkins^ careless mistake on that point cast the 
magnificent City of Paris on the Manacles a wreck. Failure to keep 
proper books or to take account of stock has made many a man bank- 
rupt. The same sort of indifference and lack of business sense has 
crippled many a church — sometimes has killed churches. Over- 
caution may be detrimental ; overconfidence is suicidal. "Be sure you 
are right, then go ahead" is a motto both of whose injunctions should 
be obeyed. Afterthought may be wiser than forethought ; but neither 
is worth much alone. The pilot on a river steamboat examines care- 
fully his foresights and his hindsights, then shifts his wheel according- 
ly. So it should be in the Church. 

In these days of short pastorates, the recording of the historical 
data pertaining to the church is doubly important, though likewise 
doubly neglected. Contemporary History is the hardest to understand. 
The busy men are making History, not recording it. But if contem- 
porary records are not kept, few facts that might have entered into them, 
even the most significant, can be thereafter discovered. The future 
historian will find himself called on to make bricks and to furnish his 
own straw ! 

It may have been a philosophical solace to the historian Palgrave* 
to write: "The preservation or destruction of historical materials is 
as providential as the guidance of events. We are not called to be the 
revealers of the hidden things ; it is not for us that the sea is to give 
up its dead." But the destruction of — or even the neglect to make — 
contemporary records is not a matter of indifferetice to any organization 
worthily existing. Whether the Church is doing her duty or not, her 
records ought to show it. This is equally true of all departments of 
Church work, local, presbyterial, synodical, as well as denominational. 
That the records as now kept are not usually adequate seems to your 
essayist painfully evident. That the records of the larger religious 
bodies cannot be properly kept if those of their smaller component 
bodies are neglected seems equally evident. 

It is easy to bring this general charge. It is another thing to 
prove it, and still another thing to remedy it. Wherein then are our 
church records deficient? It is unnecessary for our purpose that we 
say more about the records of our larger bodies, such as Synods and 
Assemblies. Those bodies have carefully prepared and well executed 
plans for gathering and publishing information. Such records are as 
perfect of their kind as the Presbyteries jeporting furnish the data for 
making. Perhaps we might go further and say that the records of 
most of our Presbyteries are as perfect as the data furnished by our local 
churches permit the Stated Clerks to compile. The men in most of 
our Presbyteries who hold the office of Stated Clerk are experienced 
men, and all are subject to criticism by their brethren in open Pres- 

*Hist. Eng. and Norm., I. 121. 



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INTRODUCTION 



bytery. The responsibility therefore for the fundamental records of 
all our denominations and of the whole Church of Christ rests heavily 
upoji the local church. That responsibility will not be met unless the 
Pastor meets it. 

What then is the Pastor's duty in reference to the records of the 
local church? Briefly it is to see that they are properly kept, and 
occasionally to make use of them in historical sermons, or other publi- 
cations whereby his people and even a wider circle may become ac- 
quainted with the work done by that particular church. It does not 
necessarily devolve upon the Pastor to keep the records himself. Very 
rarely is that desirable. Yet far more rarely is a Clerk of Session 
found who knows what records to keep and how to keep them. Every 
Clerk needs the Pastor's suggestions and reminders. The rules for 
keeping sessional records need not be discussed here. The Presbytery 
of Kansas City has among its published Standing Rules a long chapter 
upon that subject. 

We have time only to notice the third of the Minister's contri- 
butions to Ecclesiastical History, — one that we have already mentioned : 

3. The Writing of Church History. Some Ministers have the 
habit of preaching an annual sermon reviewing the work of the year. 
It is a habit to be commended in our larger churches, and one that might 
often prove helpful even in the smaller organizations. It is doubtful 
whether more than a select few have any just conception of the work 
attempted or accomplished by the organization to which they belong. 
An annual or a triennial review would quicken their religious life and 
guide it into well established channels of which many are compara- 
tively ignorant. 

The outline or tabulated statistics contained in such sermons 
might well be published. It certainly should be permanently recorded. 
The sermons or addresses prepared by the Pastor find their way into 
his "barrel" or waste basket. A few years later, when an extended re- 
view might be made with profit, a new Pastor must go over the whole 
matter again ; and, without personal knowledge of the facts at the time 
of their occurrence, must seek to supply deficiencies in the records then 
accessible to him, and to discover the whole train of circumstances lead- 
ing under Cod up to the then present condition of the church. 

But whether historical sermons are frequent or not, ought not 
every Pastor to keep a well arranged and extensive Pastor's Register? 
This important part of our Church records — a statistical chronicle or 
digested annals — is probably the part most neglected of all. For this 
there are several reasons. Our theological seminaries, so far as the 
writer knows, all neglect instruction on this point. Our Boards of 
Publication, none of them, publish well arranged blank-book Registers, 
so ruled and spaced as to make their keeping as systematic and valuable 
as they might easily be made. But no matter how good the blank-book. 



ECCLESIASTICAL EECOEDS. 



23 



no Eegister will fill itself neatly, systematically, contemporaneously. 
That takes work. But, brethren, it is worth all the work it costs. You 
owe it to yourselves, as well as to your successors, to do that work well.* 



*Among the recommendations in the report of the Committee on Synodical His 
tory adopted in 1898 (see Minutes, p. 34) were : "1. That a vigorous effort be made 
in each of the Presbyteries of the Synod to obtain a full history of every church, and 
a biographical sketch of every Minister, Licentiate and Candidate ever at work with 
in our bounds. 2. That a copy of every historical discourse, reviewing the work of 
any of the churches or Ministers, be forwarded to the Chairman of the Historical 
Committee of the Presbytery in which the work was done ; and, it possible, that an- 
other copy be furnished the Presbyterian Historical Society, 1319 Walnut Street, 

Philadelphia, Pa 4. That the Committee on Presbyterial History be 

instructed to urge each Pastor and Clerk of Session to keep an accurate Church 
Register, always posted up to date, which shall include an account of the original 
organization of the church, and a full record of all admissions, baptisms, deaths, 
elections, stated supplies installations and other events in the church life." The 
publication of this Presbyterial History ought not to release any oflBcer from the 
necessity of heeding the above request. The Committee on History desires to re- 
emphasize it. 



CHRONOLOGICAL REGISTER 



PRESBYTERIAL REGISTER. 

. MEETINGS OF THE PRESBYTERY OF UPPER MISSOTJRI. 

Place Kind Date Moderator Stated Clerk Temp. Clerk 

Richmond O Apr 11, 1844 Lewis Thompson J L Yantis J M Inskeep 

Lexington F Oct 10, 1844 Wm Dickson " Eld J M Thompson 

Nodaway S Apr 3, 1845 J M Inskeep " W Dickson 

Independence F No meeting 

Liberty S Apr 1846 J L Yantis " V Pentzer 

Independence A May 28, 1846 " " R Scott 

Prairie Ch C Sep 11. 1846 Wm Dickson " A R Curry 

Bethel S Apr 1, 1847 Robert Scott " J M Inskeep 

Richmond A May 7, 1847 " " " 

F Oct 7, 1847 J M Fulton " R Scott 

Lexington A Oct 22, 1847 " 

Platte Oity S Apr 6, 1848 J L Yantis J M Fulton J M Inskeep 

Independence F Oct 12. 1848 W Dickson " Eld D I Caldwell 

Weston S Apr 5. 1849 T A Bracken " R H Allen 

Bethel A No minutes 

Prairie F Oct 11, 1849 W Dickson R S Symington T A Bracken 

Crooked River S Apr 11. 1850 R Scott W Dickson 

Lexington A June 27. 1850 " A V C Schenck R S Symington 

Prairie F Oct 3, 1850 RS Symington " AV C Schenck 

Savannah S Apr 11, 1851 Chas Stewart " 

Liberty F Sep 26, 1851 R S Symington " 

Lexington C Jan 7, 1852 W Dickson " " 

Richmond S Apr 8. 1852 " " 

Lexington F Oct 14, 1852 " " 

Fulton A Oct 22, 1852 " " 

Richmond A Nov 3, 1852 " " 

Liberty S Apr 14, 1853 1 W Canfleld " R S Symington 

Dover A Apr 19, 1853 A V C Schenck " J B Harbison 

Crooked River F Oct 13, 1853" W Dickson " J M Keith 

Liberty A Oct 22, 1853 R S Symington " A V C Schenck 

Richmond C Dec 28, 1853 1 W Canfleld " T A Bracken 

Prairie S Apr 13, 1854 W R Fulton " R S Symington 

Pisgah F Oct 7, 1854 A V C Schenck J M Keith 

Lexington A Nov 2. 1854 " " 

Independence S Apr 12, 1855 B M Hobson " G C Crow 

Mt Olive C June 20, 1855 " " G Hickman 

Plum Creek F Oot 3, 1855 1 W Canfleld " G C Crow 

Lexington C Mar 18, 1856 " " 

Richmond S Apr 10. 1856 T A Bracken " J M Keith 

Hopewell F Sep 27, 1856 G Hickman " G C Crow 

S Grand River A Oct 25, 1856 B M Hobson " " R S Symington 

Athens A Nov 15, 1856 J L Yantis " G O Crow 

PRESBYTERY OF LAFAYETTE. 

Pleasant Hill O Apr 9, 1857 John McFarland BM Hobson J T Leonard 

Greenfield F Sep 10, 1857 W Dickson " 

Independence A Oct 2, 1857 " " " 

St Thomas S Apr 1, 1858 T A Bracken " " 

Prairie F Oct 1, 1858 J T Paxton " J M Chaney 

Liberty A Oct 10, 1858 " " 

Kansas City S Apr 7, 1859 D Coulter " A Shotwell 

Warrensburg A June 3, 1859 " " 

Deepwater P Sep 16, 1859 J T Lapsley " j j) couUer^^^ 

Pleasant Hill S Apr 5, 1860 R S Symington " G W Harlan 

Dover F Sep 21, 1860 J T Leonard " J Montgomery 

Pleasant Hill A Nov 2, 1860 '* " T A Bracken 



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CHKONOLOQICAL REGISTER. 



LAFAYETTE— Oont . 

Place Kind Date Moderator Stated Clerk Temp. Clerk 

1st Ch Pettis S Apr 11, 1861 T A Bracken B M Hobson ^...J M Chaney 

A 1 Sab June, 1861..D Coulter " B M Hobson 

High Grove F Oct 5, 1861 S W Mitchell " J W Wallace 

Waverly C Dec 3. 1861 ' " 

Pleasant Hill S Apr 19, 1862 R S Symington " J W Wallace 

Hopewell F Oct 3, 1862 J W Wallace " Geo Miller 

St Louis 2d 0 Oct 12, 1865 D Coulter J M Chaney J M Chaney 

Dover S Apr 13, 1866 W Dickson " J A Quarles 

Pleasant Hill...... ..A July 31, 1866 J W Wallace " R S Symington 

Mt Olive F Oct 6, 1866 D Coulter " J M Chaney 

Boonville A Oct 11, 1866 " " " 

At this time the party adhering to the Assembly reorganized the Presbytery, but being in the 
minority did not succeed in retaining the records. 

Boonville O Oct 12, 1866 George Miller Geo Fraser Geo Fraser 

Independence A Oct 16, 1866 " " 

Pleasant Hill C Feb 19, 1867 " " 

Warrensburg S Apr 5, 1867 C Sturdevant " Eben Muse 

KC First C July 11, 1867 " " 

Pleasant Hill F Oct 4, 1867 Eben Muse " C Sturdevant 

K C First A Oct 10, 1867 " " 

Warrensburg A Nov 12, 1867 C Sturdevant " 

" A Nov 29, 1867 G Fraser " J H Byers 



.A Dec 12,1867. 



C Sturdevant 



i C V Monfort 

Sedalia S Apr 3, 1868 Eben Muse ' ' 

Knobnoster A Apr 4, 1868 J H Byers " G Miller 

K C First C Sep 4. 1868 " " C Sturdevant 

Sugar Creek F Sep 24 1868 C H Dunlap 0 Sturdevant J H Byers 

St Louis A Oct 15, 1868 " " 

Pleasant Hill C Dec 24, 1868 C Sturdevant " Geo Miher 

Warrensburg S Apr 6, 1869 Jas Young " Eld P S Brown 

Pleasant Hill F Sep 28, 1869 W L Breckenridge....R Irwin J H Byers 

KC First S Apr 5, 1870 A J Johnson " 

PRESBYTERY OF OSAGE (N. S.) 

Cave Spring S Apr 27, 1866 A G Taylor J M Brown W S Mesmer 

Prairie Grove F Sep 14, 1866 J M Brown 

Salem S Apr 4, 1867 No quorum 

Butler A May 3, 1867 Not named " AG Taylor 

Cave Spring F Oct 10, 1867 A G Taylor EM Halbert 

Osceola S Apr 23, 1868 J M Brown 

Butler F Sep 27, 1868 8 G Clark <i u 

Sunnyside S Apr 1, 1869 E M Halbert " J J Brown 

Cave Spring F Aug 19, 1869 A G Taylor " E M Halbert 

Germantown S Apr 14, 1870 J M Brown " Eld A D Taylor 

The last two meetings were joint meetings with the Presbytery of Southwest Missouri (0. 

S.) 

PRESBYTERY OF OSAGE (After the Reunion.) 

Clinton O Sep 21, 1870 T S Reeve J H Byers J H Byers 

Kansas City 2d....A Oct 15, 1870 " " J W Allen 

Jefferson City A Oct 21, 1870 *' " 

Kansas City 2d ....C Dec 15, 1970 " " 

Sedalia S Apr 20, 1871 J H Clark " D C Milner 

Lexington F Sep 12, 1871 J T Lapsley " C H Dunlap 

Pleasant Hill C Oct 9,1871 " " 

Springfield A Oct 14, 1871 J H Clark " 

Kansas City C Dec 23, 1871 T S Reeve " W M Cheever 

Pleasant Hill C Mar 9, 1872 J T Lapsley '* Geo Miller 

8 Apr 19, 1872 J A Whitaker " j Jowelson 

Holden C June 25, 1872 J H Clark " Geo Miller 

Jefferson City F Sep 12, 1872 W M Cheever " B F Powelson 

Sedalia A Oct 17, 1872 J A Whitaker " 

Kansas City 2d....C Dec 27, 1872 No quorum 

Pleasant Hill C Mar 18, 1873 Geo Miller " Wm Coleman 

Tipton ....S Apr 8, 1873 J C Thornton " Eld J E Reeve 

SeBalia';:;....: C July 15. 1873 " " 

Kansas City 2d....F Sep 9. 1873 W L Breekenrid.ge. .. " Eld J M C Wilson 

St Louis 2d A Oct 18, 1873 " " 

Holden S Apr 14, 1874 J W Allen " -j (v^Himr'' 



MEETINGS. 



27 



..AV Coleman. 
.Geo Miller.... 



OSAGE— Cont. 
Place Kind Date Moderator 

Plfcasant Hill F Sep 8, 1874 H C Hovey W 

Kirksville A Oct 16, 1874 " 

Warrensburg S Apr 15, 1875 Win Coleman 

Pleasant Hill C July 9, 1875 " 

Clinton F Sep 14, 1875 Geo Miller 

Kansas City lst..A Oct 15, 1875 " 

..A Oct 18, 1875... 

Kansas City 2d....C Nov 16, 1875. 

Sedalia A Dec 14, 1875... 

Knobnoster S Apr 11, 1876 W L Breckenridge, 

Warrensburg F Sep 12, 1876 Reuel Dodd 

A Nov 28, 1876 R S Reese 

A Dec 5, 1876 " 

Holden S Apr 11, 1877 A Walker 

Butler F Sep 11, 1877 W M Newton 

St Charles,. A Oct 2, 1877 A Walker 

Sedalia S Apr 9, 1878 A W^ Colver 

Warrensburg A June 18, 1878 " 

Kansas City lst....F Sep 10, 1878 J H Byers 

Carthage O Oct 18, 1878 W M Newton 



Stated Clerk 

J Lee 



Holden C, 

Nevada S.. 



Dec 5, 
.Apr 8, 



1878 J W Allen 

1879 LRailsback. 



OliA^e Branch F Sep 9, 1879 C Fueller. 

St Joseph A Oct 17, 1879 J W Allen. 

Freeman A Oct 30, 1879 C Fueller . 

Appleton City S Apr 13, 1880 S B Bell 



Salt Springs F Sep 14, 1880 R H Jackson 

Kansas City lst....A Oct 17, 1880 

Pleasant Hill S Apr 12,1881 C C Kimball 

Kansas City 2d F Sep 13, 1881 A T Robertson.. 

Brookfield O Oct 12, 1881 R H Jackson 

Kansas City 2d.... A Nov 10, 1881 A T Robertson., 

Clinton A Nov 17, 1881 R H Jackson 



Tipton S Apr 11, 1882 JS Poage DL Lander, 

Butler F Sep 12, 1882. A Walker 

St Louis A Oct 12, 1882 " 

Warrensburg C Nov 7, 1882 J S Poage 

Kansas City 2d.... A Dec 15, 1882 A Walker 

Butler C Jan 26, 1882 C Fueller 

Nevada S Apr 10, 1883 J F Watkins 

Rich Hill A June 27,1883 A Walker 

Holden F Sep 27, 1883 J Thompson 

Nevada A Dec 18, 1883 " 



Temp. Clerk 

J W J Lee 

■ 1 Eld C F Smith 
.D C Milner 

J R Dodd 
• 1 Eld G W Shield 

W M Newton 

■ W H Hillis 



.Eld C F Smith 

J J C Thornton 
• I Eld Wm Young 
\ G Miller 
; Eld G W Shield 



Clinton. 



.Apr 4, 1884 J H Miller 



Kansas City 2d. ...A Apr 22, 1884 ... " 

K C Y M C A C. May 12, 1884 " 

Sedalia F......Sep 19, 1884 W R Henderson.. 

Kansas City 2d... .A Oct 22, 1884 " 

Warrensburg S Apr 14, 1884 W J Lee 

Osceola F Sep 22, 1884 A B Martin 

Sedalia A Oct 21, 1884 

Appleton City C Dec 23, 1884 " 

Tipton S Apr 13, 1886 J C Taylor 



{ J W Allen 

• ) Lie W P Baker 
{ W M Reed 

■ } Eld J Austin 
.R Dodd 

J R H Jackson 

• I Eld E P Henry 

' ffBF Powelson 

• ( Eld J K Morrow 
,.J W Allen 

' J B F Powelson 

■ 1 Eld J W Cleland 
( W M Newton 

• I J H Byers 

.Eld S Calwallader 
.CP Blayney 

f D L Lander 

t J W Allen 

{ J Moore 

• < D L Lander 

\ D L Lander 

• j Eld J G White 
j D L Lander 

■ 1 G A Beattie 
..W M Newton 
,.D L Lander 

G A Beattie 
\ D L Lander 

■ I Eld J G White 
i C P Blayney 

• } Eld W C Bell 



.J H Miller 
.Eld J W Cleland 
J J H Miller 
• \ Eld W C Bell 
,.W H Rogers 
( J H Miller 
■(G A Beattie 
W H Wieman 
W R Henderson 

S Schaff <! Eld G W Cum- 

mings 



.W H Rogers 
{ W H Wieman 

• < F R Farrand 

■fW E Mack 

• t W H Wieman 
5 C P Blayney 

■ Eld G W Shield 



W E Mack 
Eld J G White 



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CHRONOLOGICAL REGISTER. 



OSAGE— Cont. 



Place Kind Date 

Kansas City 2d.. ..A June 8, 1886.. 



Moderator 



Rich Hill. 



1886.. 



..July 2, 

Raymore F Sep 28, 1886 H A Nelson.... 

Fulton A Oct 13. 1886 

Kansas City lst....C Nov 22, 1886 

...,C Dec 30, 1886 J H Miller 

....C Mar 24, 1887 J C Taylor 

Pleasant Hill S Apr 12, 1887 Jos Piatt 

Clinton A June 16, 1887 R H Jackson.. 

Kansas City lst....A June 22, 1887 J Piatt 

Rich Hill F Sep 27, 1887 John Herron 



Stated Clerk Temp. Clerk 

,..D S Schafl J H Miller 



\ R H Jackson 

• I Eld S S Hughes 

J H Miller 
.L Rftilshack 
.J H Miller 
\ T> K Steele 

• / Eld F E Kellogg 
.Eld E P Lamkin 
.J H Miller 

( O G Morton 
. { Eld E P Lamkin 
Lie J B Hill 



PRESBYTERY OF KANSAS CITY. 



....John Herron J 



.Wilson Asdale. 



Osceola A Oct 14, 1887.. 

Jefferson Cijy A Oct 19, 1887.. 

Knohnoster A Nov 3. 1887.... 

Holden S Apr 10,1888.. 

Kansas City lst....C May 1, 1888 

" C June 23 1888 " 

Kansas City 2d!!x!"!". July 31,' 1888... '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'j C Taylor. 

....F Sep 25, 1888 0 W Gauss.. 

Kirksville A Oct 17, 1888 W Asdale.... 

Kansas City 2d.... A Oct 31, 1888 „J C Taylor.. 

....C Dec 28, 1888 0 W Gauss., 



Clinton. 



.J Edmonson. 



S Apr 9, 1889.. 

Kansas City 2d.:..C May 21, 1889 

" ....A June 10, 1889 A B Martin.,.. 

....A June 24, 1889 J C Taylor 

Butler F Sep 24, 1889 S M Ware 

Holden A Oct 16, 1889 

Kansas City 2d....A Nov 4, 1889 J Edmonson.. 

....A Nov 18, 1889 S M Ware 

....A Dec 3, 1889 A B Martin .... 

....A Decl7, 1889 

....A Jan 7, 1890 S M Ware 

....C Mar 3, 1890 J C Taylor 



Sedalia B'way S Apr 8, 1890 0 G Morton 

Kansas City 2d....A May 20, 1890 " 

....C July 5, 1890 J O Taylor 

....0 July 15, 1890 J Edmonson 

Nevada F Sep 23, 1890 G P Wilson 

St Louis A Oct 21, 1890 " 

Kansas City 2d....A Nov 2, 1890 

Warrenshurg A Dec 9, 1890 Josiah Thompson. 

Sedalia B'way A Dec 31, 1890 A Walker 

Osceola S Apr 7, 1891 C H Bruce 

K C Linwood A June 15, 1891 *' 

Sharon F Sep 15, 1891 A McLaren 

St Joseph A Oct 21-2, 1891 " 

Kansas City 5th.. A Dec 8. 1891 C H Bruce 

Knobnoster A Dec 17, 1891 A Walker 

Kansas City 2d....S Apr 5, 1892 J R Stevenson 

....A Apr 22. 1892 C H Bruce 

Rich Hill A June 14, 1892 J R Stevenson 

Warrensburg F Oct 4, 1892 W M Pocock 

Kansas City lst....A Oct 19, 1892 " 

....A Oct 21, 1892 " 

Sedalia Cent'l S Apr 4, 1893 John B Hill 



H Miller S M Ware 

!;';;;!;'!'' '"''""Eld Gordon Hardy 
^ S M Ware 

) Eld E W Snyder 

I' C H Bruce 

" A B Martin 

^ S M Ware 

/ Eld J P Watkins 

EldEWSchaufiler 

•\ Lie J B Hill 

C H Bruce 

I W M Baird 

C H Bruce 

" ' L Railsback 

C H Bruce 

^ S T McClure 
i Eld E P Lamkin 

'ZZZ'Z''.C H Bruce 

ZZ^ZZ^M H Bruce 
Eld G H Winn 

( R H Jackson 
{ J C Taylor 

( Eld F E Kellogg 

" Eld 0 Richardson 

Eld JO Hogg 

Eld F E Kellogg 

\ Elds J O Hogg 
( and AH Gossard 

'Z'"Z'Z''.A Walker 
Eld G H Winn 

" W M Pocock 

^ W F Shields 

I Eld C A Young 

W F Shields 

u ^ R R Marquis 

I Eld Jas Cousley 

" John B Hill 

W F Shields 

" R a Marquis 

(JBHill 

^ Eld J G White 

H M Campbell 

.John B Hill 

( J B Hill 

< H M Campbell 

( C H Bruce 
F W Hinitt 

" W F Shields 

u i J R Stevenson 
I Eld J O Hogg 



MEETINGS. 



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KANSAS CITY— Cont. 



Place Kind Date Moderator 

Kansas Citv 2d....C May 29, 1893 John B Hill J 

Drexel ' A.. . ..June 6, 1893 H M Campbell 

Kansas City 2d. ...C July 5, 1893 John B Hill 

....C Sep 8, 1893 " 

Jefferson City F Sep 26, 1893 H M Campbell 

.John B Hill 



Carthage A Oct 18, 1893.. 

A Oct 19, 1893 

Kansas City 2d....A Nov 20, 1893 C H Bruce 



Clinton. 



.S Apr 3, 1894 W M Newton 



Kansas City 2d....A May 8, 1894 John B Hill., 

....C June 5, 1894 



Holden F Sep 25, 1894 J A P McGaw. 

Brookfield A Oct 17-8, 1894 

Kansas City 2d....C Nov 20, 1894 

" .. .C Mar 26, 1895 



Kansas City 5th..S Apr 9, 1895 R R Marquis ... 

Warrensburg A May 7. 1895 " 

Kansas City 2d....C Aug 20, 1895 J A P McGaw., 

Jefferson City F Sep 24, 1895 H C Stanton ... 

Springfield A Oct 16, 1895 

A Oct 17, 1895 R R Marquis. .. 

Kansas City 2d. ...A Nov 2, 1895 H C Stanton..., 

Butler S Apr 14, 1896 R H Jackson. .. 



Kansas City 2d 

Nevada 

Warrensburg .... 



C June 9, 1896 

A June 18, 1896 T A P McGaw.. 

C July 6, 1896 R H Jackson ... 

Independence F Sep 22, 1896 E S Brownlee.. 

Sedalia B'way A Oct 21-2, 1896 

Clinton S Apr 13, 1897 . 

K C Linwood C June 7, 1897.. 



,H D Jenkins.. 



Raymore F Sep 28, 1897 G F Ayres 

Centerview A Oct 8, 1897 R R Marquis 

Kansas City 5th..A Oct 18, 1897 G F Avres 

K C Linwood A Oct 21, 1897 

St Louis 2d A Oct 28, 1897 H D Jenkins 

" A Oct 29, 1897 R R Marquis 

Sedalia B'way S Apr 12, 1898 E W Clippinger.. 

Kansas City 2d....C May 23, 1898 H D Jenkins 

Sedalia Cenfl C July 28, 1898 E W Clippinger.. 

Lowry City F Sep 27, 1898 R C Bailey 

Kansas City 2d.... A Oct 26, 1898 G F Ayres 

... A Oct 27, 1898 R C Bailey 

....A Oct 28, 1898 H C Stanton 

Kansas City 5th..C Dec 1, 1898 " 

Kansas City 2d....C Dec 7. 1898 H D Jenkins 

Kansas City 3d.... C Dec 22, 1898 " 

Warrensburg S Apr 11,1899 John F Hendy.... 

Kansas City 2d.... A May 23, 1899 R C Bailey 

Rich Hill A June 8, 1899 H D Jenkins 

Sedalia B'way .C July 3, 1899 J F Hendy 

Kansas City 3d....C Aug 14, 1899 H D Jenkins 

Warrensburg C Sep 4, 1899 E W Clippinger 

Appleton City F Sep 26, 1899 J S VanMeter 

Hannibal A Oct 25, 1899 " 

Clinton C Feb 20, 1900 



Stated Clerk Temp. Clerk 

H Miller H M Campbell 

E P Duulap 

H M Campbell 

" Egon Wachter 

( W T Wardle 

" s F W Hinitt 

( Eld J O Hogg 
"- J R Stevenson 



( EldPHHolcomb 
< Eld J G White 
( R R Marquis 
Eld G W Shield 
C H Bruce 
G H Williamson 
E S Brownlee 
J B Hill 



.John B Hill 
S E S Brownlee 

■ ^ Eld J G White 

..C H Bruce 

.John B rLill 
( L M Belden 

• R H Jackson 



.L M Belden 

( E W Clippinger 
. \ Eld J R Lucas 

( H A Hymes 
.John B Hill 



,.E W Clippinger 
S E W Clippinger 

• / T M Cornelison 
^ Eld C A Young 

■ \ E W Clippinger 
S G B Sproule 

• I Eld V M Hobbs 
..John B Hill 

( P B Jenkins 
,. \ Cornelison 

( McClusky 
,.E W Clippinger 
.John B Hill 

.E W Clippinger 

' ( P B Jenkins 

• 1 T M Cornelison 
..John B Hill 

,.J D Catlin 
( L P Cain 

• I E W McClusky 
.S D Jewell 



..John B Hill 
..P B Jenkins 
..John B Hill 

\ J D Catlin 
■ ( A E Vanorden 
..John B Hill 
..J H Miller 
..A E Vanorden 

( P B Jenkins 

• \ John B Hill 
.A E Vanorden 

pi B W Granger 

• I W B Chancellor 
.S D Jewell 

.W F Van der Lippe 



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KANSAS CITY— Coiit. 
Place Kind Date Moderator Stated Clerk Temp. Clerk 

Tipton S Apr 10, 1900 S D Jewell J H Miller j fy^l ChaScellor 

Kansas City 5th,.A May 11, 1900 " Paul B Jenkins 

..A May 25, 1900 John B Hill 

Rayinore A June 1, 1900 

Kansas City 5tli..C July 31, 1900 " :.. " J T Boyer 

High Point F Sep 25, 1900 E W McClusky " j Ek?E^M*Wifght 

Maryville A Oct 24-5, 1900 " John B Hill 

Kansas City 1st.. .C Nov S9, 1900 John B Hill " Wm Carter 

Independence <5 Apr 9, 1901 A D Madeira " j j §^rosT^^°^^ 

Kansas City 5th . C May 21, 1901 " " JLMcKee 



. PASTORATES. 
PRESBYTERY OF UPPER MISSOURI. 

N. B.— Only those pastorates are here recorded th&t were in churches in the tern 
occupied hy the Presbytery of Kansas City. 

Pastor Chu^-%CaM CommHlee io Install <„",%'^oi 

T A Bracken Prairie Dickson, Smyington, Dickson, Yantis Dee 1849 

Oct. 12, 1849 . (Pby Laf) 

A V C Sehenck Lexington Scott, Dickson, Smvington June 28. 1850 

April 11, 1850 , Oct 14. 1853 

W H Pawling Independence Declined 

April 15, 1854 

B M Hobson Lexington Harbison, Pawling. Bracken Nov 5. 1854 

Oct. 7 1854 (Pby Laf) 

R S Symington Pleasant Hill Declined 

April 15, 1855 

J W Clark Marshall Hobson, Hickman June 22, 1855 

June 20, 1855 (Pby Laf) 

T A Bracken Independence Fackler, Hobson, Eld, Cogswell 

Oct. 3, 1855 (Pby Laf) 

D Coulter Hopewell 

March 18, 1856 

J W Clark Pisgah Coulter, Dickson and Eld L Green Mav, 1856 

April 11, 1856 (Pby Laf ) 

J W Clark . ...St. Thomas Not placed in his hands 

Sept. 29, 1856 

J T Leonard ..So. Grand River. ...Hobson, Yantis. Bracken, Smyington Oct 26, 1856 

Sept. 29, 1856 (Pby Laf) 



PASTORATES. 



81 



PRESBYTERY OF LAFAYETTE (down to the D. and T. split.) 

Doctn- Church Call rnmmittPP tn !n<!taii Installation 

Pastor Presented Committee to install Dissolution 

J W Clark Pisgah and Mar- 
shall Installation by Pby of Upper Missouri April 6, 1860 

J M Chaney St. Thomas and 

Dover Bracken, Lapsley Coulter at S T April 4, '58 (S T) 

April 6, '60 (S T) 

April 2, 1858 Dickson, Clark, Hohson April 24, '58 (D) 

Oct 7, '67, (D) 

J T Lapsley Pleasant Hill Call returned, 1860 

April 8, 1859 

R S Smylngton Kansas City 1st ....Bracken, Pawling 

June 4, 1859 April 5, 1860 

George Miller Pleasant Hill Leonard, Hancock, Bracken Nov 4, 1860 

Sept 22, 1860 This pastorate was dissolved by the D and T party in the 

Presbytery, Aug. 1, 1866. The Assembly's Presbytery sustain- 
ed the pastor's appeal, retaining him in the pastorate until 
April 4, 1868. 

JohnMontgomerylst Cli Pettis Coulter, Hobson June, 1861 

1st Sat June '61 April 16. 1866 

T A Bracken Independence (Pby Up Mo) 

Oct 6, 1866 

B M Hobson Lexington (Pby Up Mo) 

Oct 6, 1866 

PRESBYTERY OF LAFAYETTE (Assembly Party.) 

George Eraser Kansas City 1st 

Oct 16, 1866 Call returned, Sept 4, 1868 

Eben Muse Warrensburg Sturdevant, Miller, Byers, Fraser Nov 12, 1867 

Oct 5, 1867 April 6, 1870 

J W Clark Lexington Breckenridge, Miller and Elder Wherry 

Sept 4 1868 (Pby Osage) 

Robt Irwin Kansas City Ist ....Breckenridge, Dunlap May 1, 1869 

April 8, 1869 (Pby Osage) 

PRESBYTERY OF LEXINGTON. 

The facts regarding installations by the Presbytery of Lexington are not known except in 
the two following cases. 

Chas D Nott Kansas City 2d Call returned 

April 6. 1870 

Hiram Hill Holden E B Sherwood, T S Reeve May 10, 1870 

April 6, 1870 ( Pby Osage) 

PRESBYTERY OF ST. LOIJIS. 

J A Whi taker Jefferson City (Pby Osage) 

PRESBYTERY OF OSAGE (After the Reunion.) 

Jas H Clark Warrensburg Call returned April 23, 1872 

April 21, 1871 

Jag W Clark Concord (Salt 

Springs) Timothy Hill only member present May 12, 1872 

April 2, 1871 Sept 10, 1873 

Mr. C, was released from Lexington Sept. 13, 1871. 

Geo Miller Greenwood Lapsley, Breckenridge 

April 22, 1871 April 15, 1874 

W M Cheever Kansas City 2d Milner, Irwin, Hill Dec 31, 1871 

Dec 31. 1871 (Died) June 2, 1878 

J H Byers Lexington Hill Cheever, Allen 

April 20, 1872 Sept 9, 1874 

Wm Cojeman Pleasant Hill Breckenridge, Allen 

Sept 13, 1872 Sept 15, 1875 



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OSAGE— Cont. 

Pastor Churc^^^^^^^^ Committee to Install 'js^allation 

John H Miller Sedalia S J Niccolls, Hill, Milner, Irwin Oct 20, 1872 

Oct 17, 1872 April 12, 1876 

Alex Walker Tipton Byers, Allen Oct 21, 1872 

Oct 18, 1872 Jan 26, 1883 

Hiram Hill Holden 

(Pby Lex) March 18. 1873 

Robt Irwin Kansas City 1st 

(Pby Laf ) April 9, 1873 

W H Hillis :.Wftrrenshurg Lee, Cheever, Hovey 

April 9, 1873 April 16, 1875 

H C Hovey Kansas City lst....Hill, Cheever, Milner and E O Hovey D D 

July 15, 1873 Not installed 

J A Whitaker Jefferson City 

(Phy St Louis) July 15, 1873 

Wm J Lee Holden Hillis, Byers, Cheever 

Oct 18, 1873 Nov 7, 1882 

W G Keady Jefferson City Call returned April 19, 1875 

April 16, 1874 

Eeuel Dodd Clinton Keady, Lee, Walker 

Sept 9, 1874 June 18, 1878 

r Van der Lippe....New Frankfort Bruner, A Van der Lippe 

Sept 15, 1875 Sept 9, 1879 

W J Lee Warrensburg Call returned Sept 15, 1875 

H M Skockley Sedalia Allen, Lee, Cheever 

April 12, 1877 April 14, 1880 

J F Bruner Malta Bend Call returned Sept 12 

April 12, 1877 

S B Bell Kansas City 1st.. ..Hill, Rallsback, Madeira, Allen April 28, 1878 

April 10, 1878 April 12, 1882 

W M Newton Butler Powelson, Dodd, Byers, Allen May 9, 1878 

April 10, 1878 Dec 15, 1882 

Chas Fueller Warrensburg Colver, Shockley, Lee, Poage June 18, 1878 

June 18, 1878 April 11, 1883 

C C Kimball K C Second Bell, Hill, Railsback, Madeira April 13, 1879 

April 9, 1879 Nov 10, 1881 

D L Lander Malta Bend and 

Salt Springs Chas Fueller Sept 19, 1880 

Oct 17, 1889 April 9, 1884 

G A Seattle Sedalia 1st Jackson, Fueller, Poage Sept 29. 1880 

Sept 15, 1880 Sept 29, 1886 

J GFackler Clinton Jackson, Beattie, Watkins Nov 17, 1881 

Nov 17, 1881 Sept 12, 1883 ■ 

J F Watkins Osceola Beattie, Fackler Oct 30, 1882 

Sept 3, 1882 Oct 13, 1886 

• J F Watkins Brownington Fackler, Beattie Oct 29, 1882 

Sept 3, 1882 Oct 13, 1886 

John H Miller K C Fourth Hill, Piatt, Walker, Railsback May 6, 1883 

Dec 15, 1882 Sept 27, 1888 

C L Thompson K C Second Walker, S J Niecols, Beattie, Hill, Railsback Dec 17, 1882 

Dec 15, 1882 July 31, 1888 

Alex Walker Butler Lander. J H Miller, Fueller, Railsback April 8, 1883 

Jan 26, 1883 Nov 4, 1889 

J Hays Allin Schell City, Mont- 
rose Not installed 

April 11, 1883 

D S Schaff K C First Piatt, Thompson, Philip SchaflE, Hill Dec 30, 1886 

April 11, 1883 June 23, 1888 



PASTORATES. 



83 



OSAGE— Cont. 

p.-i-_ Church Call rnmmittPP tn Insfall Installation 

Pastor Presented Committee to install Dissolution 

A W Milster Clinton .Declined 

Sept 12, 1883 

W H Wieman Rich Hill Clark, Thompson, Walker May, 1884 

April 9, 1884 July 2, 1886 

W E Mack K C Third J H Miller, Thompson, Schaff, Hill April 17, 1884 

April 9, 1884 Not reported 

A B Martin Appleton City Clark, Miller, Walker, Jackson „ May, 1894 

April 9, 1884 June 22, 1887 

F R Farrand Clinton Henderson, Cravens, Martin May, 1884 

April 9, 1884 March 24, 1887 

George Miller Nevada Martin, Weller, Walker 

Sept 10, 1884 April 11, 1888 

Dwight K Steele....WarrensburK Call returned Oct 21, 1891 

April 15, 1885 

L I Drake Holden Thompson, Beattie, Poage Nov 4, 1885 

Sept 23, 1885 Nov 22, 1886 

O W Gauss Jefferson City Martin, Beattie, Railsback Dec 17, 1885 

Dec 3, 1885 April 9, 1890 

W M Newton Raymore 

April 14, 1886 Nov 20, 1893 

J F Watkins Rich Hill Schafl, Edmonson, Walker April 28, 1887 

April 13, 1887 Sept 29, 1887 

John Herron Sedalia J H Miller, Steele, Asdale May 5, 1887 

April 13, 1887 Sept 24, 1890 

S M Ware Clinton Herron, Jackson, Thos Marshall, Geo Miller 

June 16, 1887 July 5, 1890 

A B Martin K C Third Railshack, Thompson, Bruce, J H Miller Nov 3, 1887 

June 22, 1887 June 16, 1891 

C H Bruce K C Fifth Railshack, Thompson, Schafl, P S Allen Oct 25, 1887 

Sept 28, 1887 June 1, 1897 

Thos H Jones K C 1st Welsh Thompson, Schaff, Eld M M Jones, Rails- 
back 

Sept 28, 1887 Nov 18, 1889 

H C Keeley Osceola G Miller, Watkins, Jackson, Thos Marshall Oct 14, 1887 

Sept 28, 1887 Oct 31, 1888 

PRESBYTERY OF KANSAS CITY 

O G Morton Holden Thompson, Asdale, Walker April 12, 1888 

April 11, 1888 Dee 9, 1891 

J Edmonson Nevada J H Miller, McDougall, Herron Oct 23, 1888 

Sept 26, 1888 June 15, 1892 

D R Crockett Greenwood Walker, Taylor 

Oct 17, 1888 April 8, 1891 

Geo P Hays K C Second Taylor, Miller, Martin, E C Ray Dec 28, 1888 

Dec 28, 1888 Sept 8. 1893 

J C Taylor K C Hill Memo Bruce, Hays, Martin, Miller May 5, 1889 

April 10, 1889 May 8, 1894 

G P Wilson K C First Railsback, Hays, Martin, S M Neel May 2, 1889 

April 11, 1889 Dec 9, 1890 

J H Miller Rich Hill Edmonson, Hays,Walker,Railsback,Martin July 11, 1889 

May 21, 1889 Dec 7, 1898 

Wilson Asdale Tipton Ware, Herron, Morton Oct, 1889 

Oct 18, 1889 Oct 19, 1892 

W G Pollock K C Fourth 

Dec 17, 1889 Not installed. 

W F Shields Sharon Miller, Crockett, Walker Oct 16, 1890 

Sept 24, 1890 April 5, 1893 



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KANSAS CITY— Cont. 

Pa<sfnp Church Call p«^.„ift«« l„c^*oll Installation 

Presented Committee to Install Dissolution 

E P Dunlap K C Linwood Martin, Wilson, Walker, Hays Nov 7, 1890 

Oct 22, 1890 July 5, 1893 

J R Stevenson Sedalia B'way Walker. Newton, Steele, Ross Stevenson, 

W G Craig Dec 31. 1890 

Dee 9, 1890 June 5, 1894 

W M Pocock Clinton Hays, Edmonson, Walker 

Dec 9, 1890 April 10, 1895 

J Herron Sedalia Central .... 

Dec 31, 1890 Call returned. 

R R Marquis Sedalia Central Jackson, Stevenson, Bruce, Pocock, A A E May 18, 1891 

Taylor 

April 8, 1891 Oct 28, 1897 

H C Stanton K C First Bruce, S M Neel, W N Page, Hays June 30, 1891 

June 16, 1891 April 12, 1899 

H M Campbell K C Fourth ^McLaren, Hays, Walker, Miller, Dunlap Sept 28, 1891 

Sept 16, 1891 Nov 20, 1893 

W H Hyatt KC Third McLaren, Bruce, Walker, Hays Nov 23, 1891 

Oct 21, 1891 Oct 19, 1893 

John B Hill Butler Hays, Theo W Harris, Newton, Walker Jan 21, 1892 

Dec 9, 1991 Nov 20, 1894 

A A Boyd Knobnoster, Salem 

April 6, 1892 Call returned April 5, 1893. 

W E Voss Eldorado Springs Pocock, Hyatt June 28, 1892 

April 6, 1892 April 4, 1894 

Jos Mayou Greenwood 

April 6, 1892 Call Returned 

W T Wardle Holden Stevenson, Josiah Thompson June 22, 1892 

April 22, 1892 April 10, 1895 

F WHinitt Warrensburg Pocock, Hays, Miller, Marquis Oct 5, 1892 

April 22, 1892 March 26, 1895 

JAP McGaw K C Linwood Campbell, Hill, Stanton, Bruce Oct 3, 1893 

Sept 27, 1893 June 7, 1897 

J B Welty K C Fourth Stanton, McGaw, Bruce May 30, 1894 

April 4, 1894 April 16, 3,895 

E S Brownlee Appleton City Not installed 

May 8, 1894 

G H Williamson ..Jefferson City E D Walker, Marquis, Pocock, E C Goi«aon..Nov 1, 1894 

Sept 26, 1894 Oct 16, 1895 

W P Nelson K C Third 

Sept 26, 1894 Call Returned 

E W Clippinger ....W^arrensburg Murquis,Bruee, Miller, Williamson, Sproule May 7, 1895 

April 10, 1895 Sept 4, 189& 

W F Price Sedalia B'way Marquis, McGaw, ED Walker, Williamson.. May 1, 1895 

April 10, 1895 Jnly 6, 1896 

E W Thompson Clinton 

Sept 25, 1895 Call laid on table. 

R C Bailey Holden Marquis, Bruce, Clippinger Nov 12, 1895 

Nov 2, 1895 May 23, 1899 

H D Jenkins K C Second Stanton, J H Barrows, McGaw Nov 21, 1895 

Nov 2, 1895 July 31, 1900 

L M Belden K 0 Third Stanton, H D Jenkins, McGaw April 23, 1896 

April 15, 1896 Aug 14, 1899 

J F Watkins Butler 

April 15, 1896 Call returned. 

H A Hymes Clinton Jackson, Bruce, Marquis May 4, 1896 

April 15, 1896 Dec 1, 1898 



PASTORATES. 85 
KANSAS CITY— Coiit. 

Doct«H Church Call n^^^utt.^ inc+oii . Installation 

Presented Committee to Install Dissolution 

J F Hendy Jefferson City H D Jenkins, E D Walker, Hill May 26, 1896 

April 15, 1896 

T M Cornelison ....Nevada Jackson, McGaw, Miller, Bailey June 18, 1896 

June 9, 1896 July 28, 1898 

E W McClusky K C Hill Memo Railsbaek, McGaw, Taylor Oct 13, 1896 

Sept 23, 1896 May 23, 1898 

M E Krotzer Raymore Watkins, E D Walker, Railsback Nov 13, 1896 

Oct 21, 1896 Dec 22, 1898 

LP Cain Sedalia B'way Marquis, Boyd, Hendy, Stevenson Nov 20, 1896 

Oct 22, 1896' July 3, 1899 

JT Boyer Osceola, Vista Watkins, Marquis, Newton April 27, 1897 

April 14, 1897 Feb 20, 1900 

P B Jenkins K C Linwood Ayers, Hendy, H D Jenkins, S M Neel, Hill..Oct 21, 1897 

Sept 29, 1897 

I PMcCurdy K C Fifth Ayres, S M Neel, Stanton, H D Jenkins, Hill Oct 18, 1897 

Sept 29, 1897 Dec 31, 1899 

M B W Granger Warsaw May 29. 1898 

April 13, 1898 April 11, 1900 

S D Jewell Butler W C Porter, Newton, Hill May 7, 1898 

April 13, 1898 

J D Catlin Sedalia Central Olippinger, Cornelison, Cain May 11, 1898 

April 13, 1898 July 3, 1899 

J H Miller Nevada Watkins, C B McAfee, H O Scott, McKee June 18, 1901 

Dec 7, 1898 

J S Van Meter Clinton Miller, Watkins, Eld. John Montgomery Jr..April 30, 1899 

April 12, 1899 

WFVan derLippeBrownington Van Meter, Boyer, Newton Aug 22,1899 

April 12, 1899 

WFVan derLippe Deepwater Van Meter, Boyd, Newton ..Aug 21, 1899 

April 12,1899 

WB Chancellor ....Rich Hill Bailey, H D Jenkins, Miller June 8, 1899 

May 23, 1899 

E W Clippinger Sedalia B'way Hendy, Boyd, Elder G H Howe Sept 19, 1899 

Sept 4, 1899 

Wm Carter K C First Van Meter, H D Jenkins, McCurdy, Hill Oct 10, 1899 

Sept 27, 1899 

A A Boyd Sedalia Central......Van Meter, Vanorden, Clippinger March 8, 1900 

Oct 25, 1899 

J M Ross Warrensburg VanMeter, Carter, Eld. J Montgomery, Jr....Nov 13, 1899 

Oct 36, 1899 

W C Coleman K C Fourth Jewell, H D Jenkins, Loucks, Hill April 20, 1900 

April 11, 1900 

J L McKee, K C Fifth Jewell, P B Jenkins, Carter, Hill, Taylor May 25, 1900 

May 11, 1900 

W E Loucks K C Third Carter, Coleman, Hill Oct 11, 1900 

Sept 26, 1900 

C C McGinley Independence Madeira, Hendy, Hill, Miller, Carter April 11, 1901 

April 10, 1901 
C C McK^nney Malta Bend and 

Salt Springs Madeira, Watkins, White May 3 and 4:,1901 

April 10, 1901 



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PERMANENT COMMITTEES OF THE PRESBYTERY 
(aftee the reunion.) 



HOME MISSIONS. 



Sept., 
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Appointed Chairman 

1870 R Irwin 

1871 " 

1872 J W Allen 

1873 W M Cheever D C Milner 

,1874 " 

,1875 " 

, 1875 " Geo Miller 

,1877 " Timothy Hill 

, 1878 W J Lee Alex Walker, 

, 1879 Alex Walker C H Fueller 

1882 " Eld Jacob Crone 

1883 " Eld E P Henry 



Otiier IVIembers 

T Hill, Elder C F Smith 
.W M Cheever, Eld C F Smith 



H C Hovey, Eld J E Reeve 
Eld J M C Wilson 



E L DeGarmo 



1883., 



1884 

1887 

1887 

1889 

1889 " 
1889ZZZ''ZZ8 M Ware .. 

1890 J H Miller.. 

1890 



Schaufler 
Eld E P Henry 



C L Thompson. D S Schaff , Eld E W 



J F Watkins 



" A B Martin 

..EldH C Wyatt, 
.Eld E P Lamkin, 
Eld F E Kellogg. 

Geo P Hays, Eld John Montgomery, Jr 
Eld G H Winn 



, 1891 Jas Edmonson A B Martin 

1891 *' W M Poeock, 

, 1891 " .... " G P Hays, J R Stevenson 

, 1892 W M Poeock John B Hill, W M Newton, 

, 1893 " ■ " H M Campbell, 

,1894 " " C H Bruce, 

1894 " " " J F Watkins 

1895 J F Watkins " " R H Jackson 

, 1897 " J F Hendy, W M Newton 

,1901 " " J E Stevenson 



MINISTERIAL RELIEF, 



Sept., 1870 J H Byers 

April, 1873 W M Newton Eld E K Gird 

April, 1877 A W Colver Eld P S Brown 

April, 1878 " Eld R C Williamson 

Sept., 1879 CC Kimball 

April, 1880 C H Fueller Eld J C McKibben, *Eld Wm Rust 

April, 1882 J H Miller Eld Jon Ford 

April, 1888 C L Thompson Eld Jon Ford 

Sept. 1888 Jas Edmonson Eld R W Mitchell 

Sept., 1890 J C Taylor Eld J O Hogg 

Sept., 1891 " EldD Caruthers 

Sept., 1894 " Eld J B Gibson 

Sept., 1^95 " EldG H Winn 



FOREIGN MISSIONS. 



April, 1873... J B Allen Eld A M Nichol 

April, 1874 W M Cheever Eld J M C Wilson 

April, 1875 Timothy Hill 

April, 1877 R Dodd Eld J A De la Vergne 

Sept., 1878 S B Bell 

Sept., 1380 " " G A Beattie 

April, 1882 G A Beattie Eld J G White 

April, 1887 Geo Miller " 

Sept., 1887 John Herron " » 



COMMITTEES. 



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FOEEEGN MISSIONS— Cont. 

Appointed Chairman Other Members 

Sept., 1889 C H Bruce Eld F J Baird 

Sept., 1890 " Eld W J Wetstine 

Sept., 1891 " Eld G H Winn 

Sept., 1892 W F Shields Eld D M Coulter 

Sept., 1893 W M Newton Eld J W Williamson 

Sept., 1894 A A. Boyd Eld Gordon Hardy 

April, 1895 E 8 Brownlee Eld G H Winn 

Sept., 1895 J A P McGaw Eld A E Wardner 

Sept., 1896 " Eld Thomas Curtis 

Oct., 1897 L P Cain Eld J G White 

Oct., 1897 E W Clippinger 

Sept., 1890 " Eld. John Montgomery, Jr 

CHURCH ERECTION. 

Sept., 1870 C H Dunlap Eld J M Overstreet 

April, 1871 T Hill G Miller, C H Dunlap 

April, 1873 G Miller W Coleman, Eld R C Williamson 

April, 1874: F Lippe " " Eld J H Haverfleld 

April, 1877 J W Allen Eld J G White 

April, 1878 W M Newton Eld E P Henry 

Sept., 1883 D S »chaff " 

April, 1884 " Eld P S Brown 

Sept., 1888 W Asdale Eld M E Stearns 

April, 1893 J F Watkins 

Sept., 1893 Wm. Sickles Eld T J Hendrickson 

Sept., 1895 G H Williamson Eld O G Burch 

Jan., 1896 John B Hill " 

Sept., 1897 ..: " Eld Thos Curtis 

Sept., 1898 1 P McCurdy 

Sept., 1899 J S VanMeter Eld J G Middelcoff 

PUBLICATION AND SUNDAY SCHOOL AVORK. 

Sept., 1870 J H Clark Hiram Hill. Eld E L DeGarmo 

Dec, 1870 J H Byers G W Goodale, 

April, 1872 R Irwin Hiram Hill, " 

April, 1873 W H Hillis W J Lee, 

April, 1874 W J Lee Eld J F Bruner 

April, 1877 J F Bruner Eld E L DeGarmo ' 

April, 1878 J H Byers EldJWCleland 

Sept., 1880 A T Robertson 

April, 1882 S G Clark Eld M G Manley 

April, 1884 " „..Eld J D Strain 

April, 1885 C L Thompson " 

Sept., 1887 W M Newton Eld E Wanamaker 

Sept., 1889 " Eld WH Barron 

Sept., 1890 A McLaren Eld J P Watkins 

Sept., 1892 F W Hinitt Eld G H Howe 

April, 1895 Eld J E Stevenson....Rev S G Clark 

April, 1897 " ....Rev M E Krotzer 

Sept., 1899 " ....Rev W B Chancellor 

Sept., 1900 Rev " .. .Eld J R Lucas 

EDUCATION. 

Sept., 1870 .C H Dunlap J H Byers Eld J M Overstreet 

April, 1871 WMCheever " " 

April, 1873 J H Byers J W Clark, Eld McFadden 

April, 1874 G W Goodale Eld McCormick 

April, 1875 W Coleman 

Sept., 1876 B F Powelson " 

April, 1877 " Eld AD Taylor 

Sept., 1879 R H Jackson 

April, 1882 " Eld G W Shield 

Sept., 1887 •' Eld C W Nesbit 

Sept., 1890 D R Crocket Eld Gordon Hardy 

Sept., 1891 John B Hill Eld P H Holcomb 

Sept., 1895 L M Belden Hid J A Myers 

Sept., 1899 " 

Sept., 1900 S D Jewell Eld D V Brown 



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FREEDMEN. 

Appointed Chairman Other Members 

Sept., 1872 J A ■\Vhitaker A Walker, Eld Pollock 

April. 1874 W H Hillis Eld D S Pollock 

April, 1877 L Railsbaek Eld Jon Ford 

April, 1882 A T Robertson Elk W H H Cundiff 

April, 1884 W E Mack Eld G T Coxhead 

Sept.. 1885 " Eld E W Myers 

April, 1887 O G Morton 

Sept., 1887 " Eld M Y Johnson 

April, 1892 W H Hyatt 

Sept.. 18^2 •• Eld W C K Buchanan 

Sept., 1893 W T Wardle Eld M Y Johnson 

Sept., 1895 H C Stanton Eld G W Shield 

Sept., 1899 1 P McCurdy 

Sept., 1900 J M Ross Eld Gordon Hardy 

SYSTEMATIC BENIFICENCE. 

Sept., 1871 T Hill W L Breckenridge, J H Byers 

April, 1874 J W Allen Eld P S Brown 

April, 1878 R H Jackson W M Reed 

Sept., 1880 " Eld C P Blayney 

April, 1882 D L Lander Eld W H Lunbeck 

April, 1884 W H Wieman Eld L Peters 

Sept., 1887 A B Martin Eld A F Faulkner 

Seyt,, 1888 '• Eid S Crawford 

Sept., 1889 : W G Pollock 

April, 1890 G P Wilson 

Sept., 1890 W M Newton Eld W H Barron 

April, 1892 J Edmonson 

June, 1892 J F Watkins 

Sept., 1892 " Eld Y M Hobbs 

Sept., 1894 G H Williamson 

Sept., 1895 E S Brownlee Eld J O Brooks 

Sept., 1899 W M Newton Eld C W Nesbit 

PRESBYTERIAL HISTORY. 

April, 1874 J H Byers Eld A H FcFadden 

Sept., 1875 W J Lee 

April, 1877 " Eld J P Barron 

April, 1878 T Hill W J Lee 

April, 1880 W L Lee D L Lander. Eld Jacob Tuttle 

Sept., 1881 " " THill 

April. 1882 T Hill J H Miller 

April, 1887 " Geo Miller, J H Miller 

Sept., 1895 John B Hill Eld E M Wright 

SUSTENTATION. 

April, 1873 J H Byers Eld Patrick Ballard 

April, 1875 Reuel Dodd 

MANSES. 

April, 1873 Alex Walker Eld M E Stearns 

April, 1878 H M Shockley Eld J G White 

Sept., 1880 Josiah Moore " 

April, 1882 C P Blayney Eld M V Johnson 

CHRISTIAN LIFE AND WORK. 

Sept., 1890 Geo P Hays Eld Frank J Baird 

Sept., 1895 J H Miller Eld F E Kellogg 

TEMPERANCE. 

April, 1884 J C Taylor Eld G H W^inn 

Sept., 1887 " Eld J O Hogg 

Sept., 1890 J F Watkins Eld O G Burch 

Sept., 1891 W F Shields Eld D M Coulter 

Sept., 1892 A McLaren Eld J P Watkins 

Sept., 1894..., " EldWmRequa 

Sept., 1895 J B Welty Eld J C Blair 

Sept., 1896 H A Hymes Eld J G Middelcoff 

Apr., 1899 J S VanMeter Eld H P Paris 

Sept., 1899 JTBoyer 



COMMITTEES. 



COLLEGES AND AC^EMIES. 

Appointed Chairman Other Members 

April, 1884 F R Farrand Eld J G White 

April, 1887 J Edmonson 

Sept., 1887 S M Ware Eld E P Lamkin 

Sept., 1890 G P Wilson Eld Wm McEwen 

April, 1891 WMPoeock 

Sept., 1891 RR Marquis Eld Jas Cousley 

Sept., 1895 W F Price Eld John Montgomery Jr 

Sept., 1896 H D Jenkins Eld E W Schauffler 

Sept., 1900 J T Boyer Eld J T Halsey 

YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORK. 

Sept., 1891 E P Dunlap Eld J O Hogg 

Sept., 1893 C H Bruce Eld Howard Patrick 

Sept., 1894* J A P McGaw Eld J O Hogg 

Sept., 1895 R R Marquis Eld H H Fleming 

Oct., 1897 LP Cain 

Sept., 1900 W E Loucks 

NARATIVE 

Sept., 1895 E W Clippinger Eld G H Howe 

Sept., 1897 J T Boyer Eld J R Lucas 

Sept., 1898 

Sept., 1899 A A Boyd Eld T J Halsey 

Sept., 1900 W F Van der Lippe Eld D C Blanchard 

MINISTERIAL CLAIMS. 

Sept., 1895 J. H Miller Wm Coleman, Eld P H Holcomb 

Sept., 1899 " DL Lander, 

Sept., 1900 S D Jewell, 

EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES. 

Sept., 1870 W L Breckenridge G Miller, C D Nott, J A Whitaker, T S Reeve, S G 

Clark, J H Bvers, B F Powelson 

April, 1874 W L Breckenridge H C Hovey, j' H Miller, W H Hillis 

Sept. 1875 >' A Walker, 

April, 1877 W J Lee " W M Newton, 

April, 1878 T Hill " " W J Lee 

Sept., 1879 C C Kimball 

April, 1882 J Poage G A Beattie, C H Fueller, J Thompson 

Sept., 1883 C L Thompson " J F Watkins, 

Sept., 1889 " D S Schaff, 

Sept., 1889 Josiah Thompson O W Gauss, S M Ware, J Herron 

Sept., 1890 " GPHays, 

April, 1891 

Sept., 1891 " " G P Wilson, J F Watkins 

Sept., 1893 •' •' J R Stevenson, 

Sept., 1894 H C Stanton 

Sept., 1895 " J A P McGaw 

Sept., 1899 " " W M Newton, J Thompson 

April, 1899 " E W McClusky, G F Ayres, P B Jenkins 

Sept., 1899 J F Hendy S D Jewell, E W McClusky, 

SABBATH OBSERVANCE. 
Sept., 1899 Wm Carter Eld D B Kirk 

TRUSTEES OF PRESBYTERY KANSAS CITY. 

Appointed Sept., 1899. Re-elected on expiration of terms. 
John Montgomery, Jr., Chairman for 3 years. 
Rev. James F Watkins, " 2 

James H Austin, "1 " 



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COMMISSIONERS TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 

Commissioners to the General Assembly, after the organization of the 
Synod of Missouri, in the Presbyteries covering territory now occupied by the 
Presbytery of Kansas City. Those that went from churches in our territory 
(so far as known) are in italics. 

PRESBYTEEY OP MISSOURI. 

MINISTEES. RULING ELDEBS. 

1832. Hiram Ghamierlain. .. . 

1833. William P. Cochran 

1834 

1835 

1836. Hiram Chamberlain ... . 

1837. Hiram Chamberlain. . . . 

1838 

1839 

1840. J. L. Yantis 

1841. Wjn. G. Bell 

1842 

1843 



PRESBYTERY OF UPPER MISSOURI. 

1844. J. L. Yantis Chas. E. Mill. 

1845. ^Ym. Dickson Elliot. 

1846. V. Pentzer Jos. Clark. 

1847. J. L. Tantis Thos. Allen. 

1848. R. Scott 8. M. Grant. 

1849. T. A. Bracken 

1850. T. A. Bracken Wni. Cogswell. 

1851. A. V. C. Schenck W. T. Wood. 

1852. T. A. Bracken E. M. Samuel. 

1853. T. A. Bracken E. M. Samuel. 

1854. W. H. Pawling Wm. Cogswell. 

1855. W. DlcTcson G. W. Buchanan, 

1856. A. V. C. Schenek Preston Dunlap. 

PRESBYTERY OF LAFAYETTE. 

1857. •/. W. Clark A. Farrar. 

1858. R. S. Symington A. W. Hutchins. 

1859. J. McFarland S. Grant. 

1860. B. M. Hohson S. F. Taylor. 

1861. J. W. Clark Dr. Keith. 

1862 

1863 

1864 

1865 

1866. J. L. Yantis G.W. Buchanan. 



PRESBYTERY OF LAFAYETTE. 

(Part adhering to the General Assembly.) 

1867. George Fraser A. W. Reese. 

1868. Chas. Sturdevant P. 8. Brown. 

1869. Elen Muse P. 8. Brovm. 

1870. J.E.Byers Roht. McCandlesa. 



NEW SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS. 



PRESBYTERY OF HARMONY. 

MINISTERS. RULING ELDERS. 

1843 

1846. L W. K. Handy 

1847 



PRESBYTERY OF LEXINGTON. 

1847. T. S. Reeve. 

PRESBYTERY OF OSAGE. 

1849. Wm. H. Smith 

1850. ./. V. Barks 

1851. G. A. M. Renshaw 

1852. A. G. Taylor 

1853 

1854. J. y. Barks 

1855 

1856. W. H. Smith 

1857. J. V. Barks 

1858 

1859 

1860 

1861 

1862 

1863 

1864 

1865 

1866 

1867 

1868. If. Brown 

1869. 8. a. Clark Elder G. W. Shield. 

1870. D. G. Milner A. D. Taylor. 

PRESBYTERY OF LEXINGTON. 

1849. Edmund Wright 

1850. F. B. Gray 

1851 

1852. S. J. M. Beebee 

1853. T. Morgan 

1854. C. D. Simpson Elder John Rice. 

1855. Roht. Glenn F. W. Dioges. 

1856. S. J. M. Beebee 

1857. E. A. Carson A. J. Modie. 

1858 

1859 

1860 

1861 

1862 

1863. F. E. Sheldon 

1864. T. Morgan 

1865. B. B. Parsons. . . •. Jos. Lambrite. 

1866. B. B. Parsons J.H.Carson. 

1867. E. B. Sherwood W. M. Sherwood. 

1>!'8. Timothy Bill John DeClue.. 

\^m. E. A. Carson C. F. Smith. 

1870. Timothy Hill H.P.Alexander. 



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CO^BIISSIONERS TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY SINCE THE REUNION. 
With the names of the Churches they went from. 

PRESBYTERY OF OSAGE. 

1S7L C. H. Dunlap, Sedalia First; A. J. Johnson, Otterville. 

James Craig, Kansas City First; J. E. Reeve,* Kansas City Third. 

1872. Hiram Hill, Holden: B. F. Powelson, Montrose. 

J. D. Briggs, WarsaAv: W. H. Chamberlain, Pleasant Hill. 

1873. D. C. ]\Iiller, Kansas City Third; J. W. Allen, Kansas City. 

A. McCorniick, Knobnoster; J. P. Barton,-" Pleasant Hill. 

1874. W. L. Breckenridge, Raymore; W. J. Lee, Holden. 

J. F. Bruner, Vv arrensburg ; J. H. Haverfield, Pleasant Hill. 

1875. Wm. Coleman, Pleasant Hill; H. C. Hovev. Kansas Citv First. 

(Ceo. Snedeker, Sedalia First) ; G. W. Shield, Osceola\ 
3 876. "\Y. L. Breckenridge. Raymore. 

J. M. C. Wilson, Kansas City First. 

1877. Timothy Hill, Kansas City: W. H. Hillis, Warrensburg. 

G. de la Yergne, Clinton : C. F. Smith," Kansas City Second. 

1878. W. M. Newton, Butler: W. J. Lee, Holden. 

G. W. Shield, Appleton Citv: E. P. Henry, Butler. 

1879. A. Walker, Tipton: J. H. Bvers, Nevada. 

J. W. Cleland,-^' Nevada : J. G. White,* Sedalia First. 

1880. H. M. Shockley, Sedalia First: J. S. Poage, Centerview. 

A. J. Baker. Kansas Citv First: Jacob Crone, Tipton. 

1881. C. Fueller, Warrensburg: 'R. H. Jackson, Westfield. 

(Jon. Ford, Kansas Citv Second) ; E. L. de Garmo, Warrensburg. 

1882. L. Railsback,* Kansas Citv Third: A. T. Robertson, Pleasant Hill. 

W. H. H. Cundiff, Pleasant Hill: E. P. Lamkin, Clinton. 

1883. J. F. Watkins, Montrose: G. A. Beattie, Sedalia First. 

R. C. Williamson, Pleasant Hill : Scott Nesbit. Osceola. 

1884. C. P. Blaynev, Olive Branch: Timothy Hill, Kansas Citv. 

C. W. Nesbit, Westfield : G. W. Cummings, Sedalia First. 

1885. S. B. Bell, Kansas City: S. G. Clark, Rich Hill. 

J. J. de la Yergne, Clinton; J. R. Frith, Kansas City First. 

1886. W. E. Mack. Kansas Citv Third : Josiah Thompson, Centerview. 

S. S. Hughes,* Creighton : D. G. Steele, Jefferson City. 

1887. D. iS. Schaff, Kansas City First. 

(E. P. Henry, Butler.) 

PRESBYTERY OF KANSAS CITY. 

1888. (E. L. Thompson, Kansas City iSecond; Geo. Miller, Nevada. 

Jon. Ford, Kansas City Second ; J. G. White, Sedalia Broadway. 

1889. A. Walker, Butler; R. H. Jackson, Westfield. 

E. W. Snyder, Clinton: R. W. Mitchell, Nevada. 

1890. Wilson Asdale, Tipton. 

Frank J. Baird. Kansas City Second. 

1891. J. H. Miller, Rich Hill; G. P.^Hays, Kansas City Second. 

J. Montgomery, Jr.. Sedalia Broadway: H. E. Overstreet. Kansas «. . 
5th. 

1892. C. H. Bruce, Kansas City Fifth; W. M. Newton, Raymore. 

T. J. Hendrickson, Sharon : E. P. Lampkin, Clinton. 

1893. J. C. Taylor, K. C. Hill Memorial ; R. R. Marquis, Sedalia Central. 

G. W. Cummings, Sedalia Broadway : M. E. Stearns, Tipton. 

1894. W. M. Poeock, Clinton: A. McLaren, Nevada. 

G. H. Winn, Kansas City Second; F. E. Kellogg, Rich Hill. 

( ) Was not present at the Assembly. 

* Elected as alternate ; Ibut principal could not attend. 



COMMISSIONERS. 



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KANSAS CITY— Coiit. 

1895. John B. Hill, Kansas City; G. B. S]3roule, Deepwater. 

G. W. Shield, Kansas City First; Chas. Thorn, Nevada. 

1896. E. S. Brownlee, Appleton City; J. H. Miller, Eich Hill. 

W. H. Barron, Raymore; 0. G. Burch, Jefferson Citv. 

1897. H. A. Hymes, Clinton; C. H. Bruce, Kansas City Fifth. 

H. H. Fleming, Sedalia Central ; H. A. Thompkiiis, Warsaw. 

1898. J. F. Hendy, Jefferson City; J. T. Boyer, Osceola. 

H. P. Faris, Clinton; D. C. Blanchard, Brownington. 

1899. E. W. Clippinger, Warrensburg; L. P. Cain, Sedalia Broadway. 

W. B. Hale, High Point; E. D. Sayles, Lowry City. 

1900. J. H. Miller, Nevada; J. R. Stevenson, Chicago. 

F. E. Kellogg, Rich Hill; J. N. Southern, Independence. 

1901. J. F. Watkins, Appleton City; E. W. McClusky, Tipton. 

D. V. Brown, Butler; M. V. Johnson, Holden. 

CHURCHES THAT HAVE SENT COM]\IISSIONERS TO THE GENERAL 
ASSEMBLY, SINCE THE REUNION. 
In the following list only those churches are included which have sent their 
Ministers or Elders to the Assembly. In case of a group the Minister's name is 
recorded under the church with which the JNIinister resided. Those marked"" 
were not in charge of churches mentioned. Those enclosed in ( ) did not attend. 

CHURCHES. MIXISTERS. ELDERS. 

Appleton City 1896, ^1901 1878 

Brownington 1898 

Butler 1878, 1889 1878, (1887), 1901 

Centerview 1880, *1886 

Chicago *1900 

Clinton 1894, 1897 1877, 1882, 1885, 1889, 1892, 1898 

Creighton 1884 1886 

Deepwater . , 1895 

High Point 1899 

Holden 1872, 1874, 1878 1901 

Independence 1900 

Jefferson City 1898 1886, 1896 

Kansas City 1st 1875 1887, 1871, 1876, 1880, 1885, 1895 

2d 1888, 1891 1877, (1881), 1888, 1890, 1894 

3d 1873, 1882, 1886 1871 

5th 1892, 1897 1891 

H. M....1893 

Kansas City *i873, *1877, *1884, *1885 

*1895 

Knobnoster 1873 

Lowry City 1899 

Montrose 1872, 1883 

Nevada 1879, 1888, 1894, 1900. .1879, 1889, 1895 

Osceola 1898 1875,1883 

Otterville 1871 

Pleasant Hill 1875, 1882. .1872, 1873, 1874, 1882, 1883 

Raymore 1874, 1876, 1892 1896 

Rich Hill 1885, 1891, 1896 1894, 1900 

Sedalia 1st 1871, 1880, 1883 (1875), 1879, 1884 

" B'way 1899 1888, 1891, 1893 

" Central 1893 1897 

Sharon 1892 

Tipton 1879, 1890, 1901 1880, 1893 

VVarrensburg 1877, 1881, 1899 1874, 1881 

Warsaw 1872, 1897 

Westfield 1881, 1889 1884 



Miscellaneous 



Congregational 



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General 
Assembly 



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it: 



College Aid 



Sustentation 



Freedmen 



Ministerial 
Relief 



Church 
Erection 



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Puhlication 
and S. S. Work 



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mmmmi 



Education 



Foreign 
Missions 



1 5 



IPMfllMSiflirf 



Home 
Missions 



PIIIIIIMI 



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Infant 
Baptisms 



Adult 
Baptisms 



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CHRONOLOGICAL REGISTER OF MINISTERS. 



ADMITTED BEFOKE 1850 

NATHANIEL BKOWN DODGE, Jr., b. June 5, 1781, Winchester, N. H.; 
son of N. B. Dodge; was in War of 1812; ord. about 1816 by Cong. Council in 
Vt. ; P. Cong, ch.of Underbill, Vt., 5 yrs.; organized in N. Y. City the company 
sent out to establish the Harmony ]\iission, 1821, Bates Co., Mo.; rec. by Pby. 
of Harmony at organization; sup. Harmony Mission, 1821-9; became Missy to 
the whites, 1829; Miss'y to Indians on the Neosho, (Boudinot Mis'n), to 1836; 
Miss'y of A. H. M. S., 1836 to his death; orgz'd several ch's in Bates and Vernon 
Go's ; first Moderator of the N. S. Syn. Mo. ; wrote a History of Harm. Mis'n, 
which was burned with his house by Indians; m. Mar. 22, 1803, Sally Gale; d. 
Sep. 3, 1848, at Little Osage, Mo. 

WILLIAM B. MONTGOMERY, b. Danville, Pa. ; member of Harmony Pby. . 
at orgz'n; one of original members of Har. Mis'n; published the only Osage book 
ever publ'd; m. three times; d. Aug. 17, 1834, Hopefield Mission, Ind. Ter. 

BENTON PIXLEY, member of Harm. Mis'n, '21-24; Neosho Mis'n, '24-29; 
preached in Independence, Mo., '29ff. 

EDWAED HOLLISTER, b. Feb. 22, 1796, Sharon, Ct.; grad. Middlebury, 
'16; Andover, '20; ord. Sep. 26, 1820, Pbv. Londonderry; Mis'y in Boston; 
orgz'd Boonville ch. (at Old Franklin), Apr. 28, 1821; m.^Aug. 18, 1823, Mary 
Trumbull, Salem, Mass.; d. Jan. 11, 1870, Alton, 111. 

AUGUSTUS POMEROY, b. Granville, Mass.; grad. Williams, '21; Andover, 
'25; ord. Sep. 29, '25: bv a Council in Old South ch., Boston; rec. by Mo. Pbv.; 
S. S. Boonville, '26 ; d. Dec. "OO ( ? ) . 

WILLIAM PORTER COCHRAN, b. Nov. 10, 1803, Millerstown, Pa.; grad. 
Dickinson, '24; Princeton, '27; lie. fall, '27, by Pbv. Huntingdon: ord. Mar. 23, 
'28, Pby. Mo.; sup. Old Franklin (Boonville) ch. '28; D. D., Highland Un., '72; 
m. June, '28, Mrs. Eliza M. Scott; d. Dec. 25, 1884. 

HIRAM CHAMBERLAIN, b. Apr. 2, 1797, Monkton, Vt.; grad. Middlebury, 
'22; stud. Princeton, '22-23, Andover, '23-25; ord. Oct. 16, '25, Pby. N. Y.; sup. 
Dardenne, Mo., '26; Chaplain U. S. A., Jefferson Barracks, Mo., '27; rec. by 
Pby. Mo. ; S. S., Franklin and Boonville, '28-35, also Fayette, '33-35 ; Mod. Syn. 
Mo., 1834. 

AIMASA JONES, b. Apr. 28, 1796, Rindge, N. H.; s. of Asa and Mary; educ. 
private and one year at Andover Sem.; shoemaker; lie. Nov. 7, '26, by Indian 
Mission Pby.; ord. Oct. 12, '30, Pby. Arkansas; Mis'y to Osage Indians at Harm. 
Mis'n, '21-36; sup. Deepwater, Osceola, Harrisonville, Harmony, Bethesda, etc., 
'36-67; became a physician; m. Feb. 15, '21, Roxana Stearns, Ashburnham, 
Mass.; d. Apr. 17, '70, Old Deepwater, Mo. 

WILLIAM DICKSON, sup. Dover ch. all his ministry here ; memb. of Pbys. 
of Mo., Up. Mo., Laf ., at organization of latter two ; D, & T. 

ROBERT L. M'AFEE, b. May 29, '02, Mercer Co., Ky.; stud, at Center 
Coll.; theology priv. ; lie. Pby. Transylvania, Mar. '29; sup. Round Prairie and 
Millersburg, Mo., '31-51; memb. Pby. Mo.; orgz'd Jefferson City ch., 1834, sup. 
it to '42; Dover, '51; d. ab. 1872. 

JOHN LAPSLEY YANTIS, b. Sep. 14, '04, Lancaster, Ky.; s. Col. John 
Yantis and Priscilla Catharine Lapsley ; studied medicine ; grad. Coll. ; 

*This Kegister is as complete as the materials at hand would permit made. The 
records of the Presbyteries of Missouri, Harmony and Osage before the War have not 
come into the hands of the Committee on Preshyterial History. In all eases where it was 
possible to do so, the facts have been obtained from the men themselves, in the shape of 
answers to a list of printed questions. The alumni catalogues of Union, Princeton, Au- 
burn and Western Theological Seminaries have been consulted and freely copied from. 
Unfortunately the other seminaries have no such published catalogues. No attempt is 
here made to complete the record after the dismission of members from this Presbytery. 
Incomplete as some of these statistics are. only those who have tried to gather similar 
facts can appreciate the difficulty of collecting them. 



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theoL priv. under Eev. Robt. A. Lapsley, D. D., '30; lie. Apr, "29, Pby. Transyl- 
vania; ord. ab. 1830, ib. ; sup. Stanford and Lancester, Ky., "30-33; memb. Pby. 
Mo.; sup. Liberty, '33-5; Columbia, '36; Bethel, Clay Co., '38; Fulton and 
Auxvasse, '39; Lexington, '41; Register of U. S. Land Office, Lexington, Mo., 
'45; teacher, Sweet Springs, '49; went to Oregon, '52; pres. Richmond Coll. Mo., 
'55; sup. Danville, Ky., "59; returned to Mo., '61; rec. Pby. Laf., Oct. 12, '65, 
fr. Pby. Transylvania; sup. Kansas City First, '65-66; K. C. Central, '66-68; 
D. &T.; D. D., Center Coll., '59; m. Aug. 21, '28, Eliza Ann Markham Mont- 
gomery, Stanford, Ky. ; d. May 25, '82, Lexington, Mo. 

WILLL4M GILMORE BELL, b. Dec. 11, '12; West Alexander, Pa.; grad. 
Washington, '35; stud. Princeton, '35-37; lie. Oct. 5, '37, Pby. Redstone; ord. 
May 24, '40, Pby. Mo. ; p. Boonville, '40-54 ; princ. Boonville Fem. Sem., '43-58 ; 
sup"! Union ch.. Saline Co., '58-60; Warrensburg, '65-66; d. in Texas, .Sep. 23, '80. 

GEORGE M. CRAW^FORD, memb. Pby. Lex.; orgz'd and sup. Tabo eh., 
•42ff ; Mod. N. S. Syn. Mo., '47. 

DAVID WEIR, memb. Pby. Lex.; sup. chs. in Morgan and Pettis Cos., 
'42ff. ; d. about '55, Jackson Co., Mo. 

EPHRAIM PEAKE NOEL, b. Oct. 4, '04, Caswell, N. C. : stud. Maryville 

C. ; lie. Pby. Union, Oct. 3, '32 ; ord. Sep. 26, '33, ib. ; sup. 2 yrs. in Tenn. ; Knox- 
ville, 111., 3 yrs.; taught in Boon, Polk, Ray and St. Louis Cos., Mo.; memb. Pby. 
Har. ; sup Warsaw, '43 ; orgz'd Osceola ; dism. '44, to Pby. Lexington. 

J. J. SLOCUM, rec. Pby. Lex. fr. Pby. Onondaga; sup. Boonville 2d, '43; 
dism. '44 to 3d Pby. N. Y. 

GEORGE A. M. RENSHAW, b. 1819, Knox Co., Tenn.; edue. Maryville; 
lie. Apr. 9, '41, Pby. Kingston; ord. Oct. '41; memb. Pby. Har.; sup. Mt. 
Zion, Weaubleau, Bolivar, and Georgetown; d. Apr. 25, '57. 

REED WILKINSON, sup. Independence, '42-43. 

CHARLES LORD, ord. Oct. 20, '43, Pby. St. Louis; sup. Parkville, Mo., 
'43-45 ; memb. Pby. Lex. ; sup. Independence 2d, '43-46. 

HIRAM PLUMMER GOODRICH, b. Dec. 6, 1800, Richmond, Mass.; s. 
Benj. D. Goodrich and Eliza Plummer; grad. L^nion, '23; Princeton, '26; lie. 
"25, Pby. Albany; ord. Mav 3, "27, ib.; prof. Biblical Lit., U. T. Sem., Va., '28-38 ; 
pres. Marion Coll., Mo., "38-43; sup. Jefferson City, '43-45; D. D.; d. May 17, 
'58, Carondelet, Mo. 

ISAAC B. RICKETTS, educ. Maryville, Tenn. ; rec. Pby. Har., '43, fr. Pby. 
Union ; sup, Osceola and Wableau, '43-49 ; Georgetown, '44 ; Wright Co., '52 ff. ; 
went to Texas, '59, undismissed. 

CHRISTOPHER BRADSHAW, b. May 3, 1785, Jefferson, Tenn.; educ. 
Majryville; ord. '44, Pby. Union; rec. Pby. Har.; Miss'y of A. H. M. S. in 
Osage Pby., '46-60, sup. Post Oak, Little Tebo, Papinsville, Little Osage, Mar- 
meteau ; d. May, '60, Vernon Co. 

DAVID COULTER, b. Nov. 8, '08, Sussex Co., Del.; s. Jesse and Eliz.; 
grad. Lafayette, '38; Princeton, '41; lie. spring, '41, Pby. Lewes; ord. July 5, 
'43, Pby. Mo.; sup. Auxvasse, '41-43; Rocheport and Fayette, '43-48; New 
Bloomfield and Millersburg, '48-56; Columbia, 65-66; Jefferson City; memb. 
Pby. Up. Mo.; Hopewell and Prairie, '56-60; D. & T.; became blind about '72; 

D. D., Westminister, '74; m. Apr. 25, '43, Mary Parker, Lexington, Ky.; d. Aug. 
20, '78, Liberty, Mo. 

GARY HICKMAN, b. Dee. 1804, Montgomery Co., Md.; stud. Princeton, 
'30-32; lie. '40, Pby. St. Louis ( ?) ; ord. Apr. 14, '44, Pby. Mo.; sup. in Lon- 
don Co., Va., '35-36; tea. & s. s., Middlebury and Winchester, '37-40; St. Louis, 
Mo., '40-44; rec. by Up. Mo. Pby.; pas., Saline, '44-45; princ. Fem. Sem., Mar- 
shall, "45-47 ; sup. Concord and Marshall, '46-47 ; princ. Fem. Sem., Arrow Rock, 
'48-52; do., Dover, '52-55; tea. and s. s., Lafayette Co., '56-58; dism. by Pby. 
Laf. to Pby. Highland, Apr. 1, '58; m. Miss Carpenter; d. June 18, '70, Doni- 
phan, Kan. 



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TAPPING S. EEEVE, b. Oct. 5, 180G, Holland, Hampden Co., Mass.; agt. 
S. S. Union in Va. ; tea., Salem, Va. ; la^vyer, Louisburg, Va., and Hannibal, Mo. ; 
lie. May 10, '43, Pby. Northern Mo.; ord. Oct. 20, '43, Pby. St. Louis; sup. St. 
Joseph, Mo., '44-45 (preached the first sermon there, Oct. '43) ; St. Charles, 
Mo., '55, to the War; ehs. in N. Y. and Ohio; Savannah, Mo., '64-70; rec. by 
Pby. Osage, Sep. 21, '70, fr. Pby. Lex.; H. K. during his stay in this Pby.; Mod. 
N. S. Syn. Mo., '52; m. Aug. 10, '37, Jane E. Huff, Salem, Va.; d. July 16, '86, 
Ferguson, Mo. 

ISAAC WILLIAM KER HANDY, b. Dec. 14, '15, Washington, D. C; 
gr^d. Jefferson, '34; stud. Princeton, '34-35; lie. Apr. 3, '38, Pby. of Dist. 
Columbia; ord. Nov. 23, '38, Pby. Lewes; p. Buckingham, Blackwater, Laurel, 
Del., '38-44; s. s. Paducah, Ky., '44; memb. Har. Pby.; sup. Warsaw, '45-48, also 
North Prairie; A. M., Jef. Coll., '37, D. D., Maryville, '59; d. June 14, '78, 
Philadelphia. 

BEDFORD RYLAND, educ. Maryville, Tenn.; lie. Oct. 3, '32, Pby. Union; 
memb. Osage Pby. ; sup. Bolivar, Warbleau, Hermon, North Prairie, George- 
town; d. Oct. 16, '45, Bolivar, Mo. 

FRANKLIN DAVIS, lie. by Penobscot Cong'l Ass'n; ord., 1846, Pby. Har. 
commissioned by A. H. M. S., Nov. 24, '45, for Cooper, Pettis, Morgan and St. 
Clair Cos. 

ROBERT SMITH SYMINGTON, b. June 19, '19, Hanover, Ind.; s. Robert 
Symington and Nancy McWilliams; grad. Hanover, '40; New Albany T. Sem., 
'44; lie. 1843, Pby. New Albany; ord. Apr. 18, '46, Pby. Mo.; sup. 4th eh Louis- 
ville, Ky., '44; Auxvasse, Mo., '44-48; rec. by Pby. Up. Mo., Oct. 11, '49, fr. Pby. 
Mo.; rec. by Pby. Laf. at orgz'n; sup. Independence, Six Mile, Pleasant Hill, 
Westport, '48-52; agt. Westminster Coll., '52-54; princ. Fem. Acad., Pleasant 
Hill, '54ff. and '60ff.; Kansas City, First, '57-60; Mexico, Mo., '63-67; Pleasant 
Hill, '67-74; dism. to Pby. Benicia, Oct. 14, '74; A. M., •42, D. D. '99, Hanover; 
m. July 2, '46, M. E. Scott, Fulton, Mo.; d. Mar. 21, 1901, Danville, Cal. 

FINCILIUS R. GRAY, ord. Aug. 25, '34, Pby. Mo.; sup. Mt. Pleasant, New 
Providence, Newark, Mo.; rec. by Pby»Lex. ; sup. Tabbo, Independence 2d; Mod. 
N. S. Syn. Mo., '50 ; Stated Clerk, do., '47-50. 

CHARLES D. HERBERT, ord. Apr. 26, '46, by Pby. Lex. ; sup. Parkville, 
Dec. '45-Jan. '48 ; Osceola, Jan. to June '48. 

RICHARD H. ALLEN, b. May 14, '21, Greensburg, Ky.; stud. Center Coll. 
theol. priv. ; grad. law sch'l; adm d to bar in St. Louis, '44; lie. Sep. 12, '46, 
Pby. Up. Mo.; ord. June 27, '47, Pby. Mo.; p. Jefferson City, '47-48; dism. '48, 
to Pby. Up. Mo.; Presb'l Evang't; long Sec'y Bd. of Missions for Freedmen; d. 
Sep. 28, '92. 

THOMAS A. BRACKEN, b. Aug. 14, '20, Washington, Pa.; s. Henry and 
Martha; grad. Jefferson, '42; stud. New Albany T. Sem.; lie. by Pby. W. Lex- 
ington; ord. Oct. 15, /48, Pby. Up. Mo.; Hopewell and Prairie, '49-55; rec. by 
Pby. Laf. at orgz'n ; p. Independence, '55 to War, pastorate dissolved, Oct. 6, '66 ; 
D. D. 

WILLIAM H. SMITH, b. Nov. 20, '13, Columbia Co., N. Y.; s. Henry P. H. 
Smith and Deloney Whiting; grad. Union, '41; Columbia T. Sem., S. C., '44; 
lie. '43 ; ord. '49, Pby. Osage ; sup. North Prairie, Hermitage, and Mt. Pleasant, 
'47-51; Salem and -Georgetown, '52-60; Little Osage, '60; joined Pby. of Topeka 
abt. '60; m. '50, at Osceola, Mo.; d. '89, DeSoto, Kan. 

JOSEPH VAN HORN PARKS, b. Sep. 23, '17, Fairfield Co., O.; grad. Ma- 
rietta, '45; stud. Lane, '45-47, Andover, '48; lie. '47, Pby. Petascola; ord. Sep. 
'49, Pby. Osage ; sup. Warsaw, '48-63 ; also part of the time, Osceola and Little 
Tebo ; rec. by Pby. Laf. Apr. 6, '60 ; m. '48, Diana Lydia Bancr6ft, Granville, O. ; 
d. Mar. 29, '98, Odessa, Mo. 

CONRAD H. HECKMANN, b. Dec. 3, '11; Bissendorf, Germany; educ. 
Rotterdam; ord. '49, Pby. Lex.; sup. Westport and other German ehs. '54-57. 



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WILLIAM COMB REQUA, b. Aug. 22, 1795, Tarrytown, N. Y.; s. Elijah 
Requa and Eustacia Comb ; educ. Xorth Salem Acad., N. Y. ; theol. priv. ; one of 
original missionaries to Osage Indians in Ind. Ter., 1820; 1834 transferred to 
Harmony Mis'n; ord. Pby. Har. : sup. Double Branches, etc., "48-61; M. D. ; m. 
'21, Susan Comstock; m. 2d '34, Jane Montgomery; m. 3d '40, Sarah A. Nutting; 
d. Bates Co., Mo., June 3, '86. 

JOHN STUART, memb. Pby. Lex.; sup. Tabbo, '49-51. 

1850 

ADDISON VAN COURT SCHENCK, b. Sep. 24, '21, New Brunswick, N. J.; 
gvad. ivinceton C, '43 ; stud. Union, '43-44, Princeton, '44-46 ; ord. Jun. 28, '50, 
Pby. Up. Mo.; p. Lexington "49-53; tea., do., '53-55; p. St. Joseph. '55-57; dism. 
Sep. 18, "57 to Pby. St. Louis ; D. D. 

rssf 

LEVI R. MORRISON, b. 1805, Mechlinburg Co., N. C; Scotch and Eng. de- 
scent; educ. priv. under Rev. Amzi Bradshaw and Rev. Silas H. Morrison; lie. 
Apr., '31, Pby. Shiloh; ord. Apr. 20, "32, do.; sup. Spring Creek, Smyrna and 
Ephesus, Tenn., 2 yrs.; Sparta and McMinnville, 2 yrs.; Athens, 11 yrs. ; 
Gladspring, Va., 5 yrs.; memb. Pby. Osage; sup. North Prairie, Cross Timbers, 
Osceola, '51-53; Mt. Zion and Springfield, '58ff.; Mod. N. S. Syn. Mo., '54; d. 
Dec. 29, '67. 

1852 

JOHN GEORGE FACKLER, b. Feb. 6, '22, Orange Co., Va. ; s. Henry Fack- 

ler and Terrell ; educ. St, Charles Acad., Mo. ; theol. priv. under Dr. H. P. 

Goodrich; merch't in Jefferson City; lie. '51, Pby. Mo.; ord. Nov. 27, "52, Pby. 
Mo.; p. Jefferson City, '52-54; dism. to Pby. Up. Mo., '54; p. Platte City, Lib- 
erty, Richfield, St. Joseph: rec. by Pby. Osage, Nov. 17, '81, fr. Pby. Dallas 
(U. S.) ; p. Clinton, Nov. 17, '81-Sep. 12, '83; dism. Sep. 12, "83 to Pby. Los 
Angeles; m. Feb. 26, '43, Cornelia Rain^; m. 2d Eliza Parsons, Sep. 10, '45; 
m. 3d Nov. 19, '50, Catharine Dennis; d. Jan. 28, '92, San Antonio, Tex. 

ROBERT GLENN, b. Apr. 13, 1793, Roanoke Co., Va.; grad. Troy Univ., '16; 
Princeton, 1815-7; ord. Apr. 19, '19, Pbv. Union; sup. Kingsport, Tenn., '18-25; 
memb. Pby. Lex.; sup. Tabbo, '52-58; Mod. N. S. Syn. Mo., '56; d. Jan. 24, '67, 
Warrensburg, Mo. 

1853 

WILLIAM HENRY PAWLING, b. Danville, Ky. ; grad. Center, '45 ; stud. 
Western, '45-46, Princeton, '47-48; ord. Apr. 27, '51, Pby. Transylvania; p. Pis- 
gah, Ky., '51-52; s. s. Columbia, '52-53; rec. Pby. Up. Mo., Oct. 14, '53, fr. Pby. 
'Transylvania; sup. Independence, "53-57; Six Mile, do.; rec. by Pby. Laf. at 
orgz'n; s. s. Harrisonville ; left during War; d. in an asylum Aug. 28, '94, at 
Lexington, Ky. 

WILLIAM R. FULTON, b. Mar. 1, '18, Washington Co., Pa.; grad. Frank- 
lin '43; stud. Western, '43-45; lie. Apr. '45, Pbv. Washington; ord. '52, ib.; sup. 
Dcerlield and Bristol, 0., '45-51; Frankfort Springs, Pa., '49-52; rec. Pby. Up. 
Mo., Oct. 14, '53, fr. Pby. Washington; sup. Independence and Six Mil 3, '52; m. 
'49, Mary A., dau of Rev. Samuel Willson; d. Jan. 10, '81, Greenfield, Mo. 

1854 

BENJAMIN MOSBY HOBSON, b. Oct. 7, 1810, Halifax Co., Va.; s. Wat- 
kins Hobson, Mary Oliver; grad. univ. N. C, '37; Laiion T. Sem., Va. '40; lie. 
Oct. 10, '40, Pby. Orange; ord. Dec. 12, '41, Pby. East Hanover ; sup. Amelia, Va., 
'41-46; 3d ch., Louisville, Ky., '46-54; rec. by^by. Up. Mo., Oct. 7, '54, by Pby. 
Laf., at orgz'n; p. Lexington, '55-63 (left during the War, relation dissolved 



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Oct. 6, '66) ; dism. to Pby. Ebeuezer : m. ]May, '56, Martha G. Barboui', Vhk^,- 
burg, Miss,; d. Dec. 20, "80, Springfield. jNIo. 

HENRY IVL^RTYN PAYNTER (formerly Painter), b. Mar. 17, "27, Wil- 
liamsburg, Pa.; s. Joseph Painter, D. D. and Hannah S. Vredenburg; grad. 
Jefferson, '47; stud. Western, '47-49, Princeton, '49-51: lie. Apr. 11, "50, Blairs- 
ville; ord. June, '52, Pby. Mississippi: sup. Xenia, 0., '50-51; Vicksburg, Miss., 
'51-54; memb. Pby. Mo.: p. Boonville, '54-(;2 : banished from the State, Aug. 25, 
'62, as a Southern sympathizer; m. Sep. 23, "52, Alice Moncure; d. Apr. 25, '93, 
Chicago. 

JOHN WETTLE, memb. Pby. Lex.; sup. Germans in Boonville, '54-55. 

1855 

JAMES W. CLARK, lawyer: ord. June 22, '55, Pby. Up. Mo.; sup. Pisgah 
Waverly, Mt. Olive; dism. to Iowa: p. Clarinda, la.; readm. to Pby. Laf., Apr. 
7, '69, from Pby. Mo. River; p. Lexington, "69-71; Concord (Salt Springs), '71- 
73; dism. to Pby. Council Bluffs, Sep. 10, '73; d. Feb. 16, '79, Clarinda, la. 

1856 

GEORGE WILLL\M HARLAN, b. Sep. 7, "24. Cadiz, Ky.; s. Levi Harlan 
and Frances E. Street; grad. Illinois, '46; Andover, '51; lie. by Suffolk Cong. 
Assn., '51; ord. Pby. Osage, Apr. '56; sup. CarroUton, Mo., '52-3: Brazeau, 
'53-54; Osceola, '54-58; princ. Osage Acad., Osceola, '58-59: rec. Pby. Laf. Sep. 
16, '59; dism. Apr. 12, '61 to Pby. Potosi: A. M., 111. C, '50. 

JOSEPH TAYLOR LEONARD, b. Frankfort, Kv.; grad. Masonic Coll., 
Ky., "48; New Albany, '52; lie. May 5, '52, Pby. W. Lexington; ord. Oct. 26, '56, 
Pby. Up. Mo.; rec. Pby. Laf. at orgz'n; sup. South Grand River, '54-62; re- 
moved to Ky., '62 ; dism. Apr. 20, '07 to Pby. Ebenezer. 

JAMES THOMAS LAPSLEY, b. Jan. 18, '19, Mercer Co., Ky.; s. James F. 
Lapsley and Charlotte Cleland; grad. Center, '39; Princeton, '41; farmer and 
merchant; lie. Oct. 9, '41; Pby. Transylvania; ord. May 6, '42, ib. ; sup. various 
chs. in Ky., '41-42; Perryville, '42-43; Greensburg, and Bethel, "44-46; Miss'y 
in Pby. Transylvania, '46-47; p. Perry^dlle, Ky., '48-49; Presb'l Miss'y, '49-50; 
p. Flemingsburg, Ky., '50-54; s. s., Elizaville, Ky., '54-56; rec. Pby. Laf. fr. Pby. 
Transylvania ; s. s.. Knob Noster and Warrensburg. '56-57 ; Pleasant Hill, 

'57-60; dism. ; sup. New Providence, Ky., '00-64; Presb'l and Syn'l 

Miss'y, Ky., '64-69; rec. Osage Pby., Sep. 21. '70, fr. Pby. Transylvania: s. s. 
Pleasant Hill, '70-72; dism. Mar, 18, '73, to Pby. Transylvania; aI M., '42, Cen- 
ter, D. D., '73, Highland LTniv. ; m. iVpr. 19, '42, Frances Ewing. Boyle Co., Ky. ; 
m. Oct. 2, '45, Eliz. Brummell, Greensburg, Ky. ; m. 3d Dec. 24, '91, Sarah L. 
Webster, Greensburg, Ky. 

1857 

JOSEPH WILLIAM WALLACE, b. Nov. 29, '21, Fayette Co., Ky.; grad. 
Center, '40; Princeton, '45; teacher; lie. by 2d Pby. N. Y. ; ord. Nov. '46, 
Pby. W. Lexington; sup. Mt. Sterling, Ky., '46-50; Versailles and Clear Creek, 
'50-56; rec. Pby. Laf., Oct. 2, '57, fr. Pby. W. Lexington; sup. Salem and High 
Grove, '58-61 : other chs. in Jackson Co. ever since '57; D. & T. 

1858 

JAMES M"DONALD CIIANEY, b. Mar. 18, '31, Salem, 0.; educ. Des Peres 
Inst.. Mo., '52; Princeton. '56; lie. Pbv. St. Louis; ord. Apr. 4, '58, Pby. Laf.; p. 
Waverly, Mo., '58-60; Dover, '58-67: D. & T.; D. D.,.King Coll., Tenn.' 

ALBERT SHOTWELL, rec. Pby. Laf. Oct. 2. '58, fr. Pby. Ebenezer; sup. 
Westport; dism. Apr. 7, '60, to Pby. Eastern Texas. 



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1859 

ROBERT SYMIXGTON REESE, b. Feb. 5, '32, Hanover, Iiid.; s. John 
Reese and Eliz. Symington; grad. Hanover, "50; theol. priv. under Dr. Nathan L. 
Rice, '50-51; teacher in Ky., Ind. and Mo.; lie. Pby. Laf. ; ord, June 4, '59, Pby. 
Laf. ; sup. Warrensburg, Clinton and Knob Noster, '58-61; Washington Co., Va., 
'62-63 Ben Salem, Va., '63-68; Clinton and Windsor, Mo., '68-74; rec. Pby. Osage, 
Apr. 16, '75, fr. Pby. Lafayette; sup. Knob Noster, '74-75; dism. Apr. 10, '78 to 
Pby. Benicia; A. M., '54, Hanover; m. Sep. 25, '76, Warrensburg, Mo. 

SAMUEL D. LOUGHEAD, sup. Jefferson City. 

JOHN J. COOKE, ord, Nov. 26, '59, Pby. Mo.; p. Jefferson City, '59-61. 

I860 

JOHN MONTGOMERY, b. Oct. 6, 1810, Danville, Ky.; hatter, tanner and 
coppersmith: grad. Center, '35; tea. do., "35-36; stud. Princeton, '36-38; lie. "38, 
Pby. Transylvania; ord. May 7, '40, do.; sup. Harrodsburg, Ky., '38-57; princ. 

Fern. Col. do., '45-50; rec. Pbv. Mo., fr. Pby. Transylvania; sup. 1st. 

Ch. Pettis. '57ff.; rec. Pby. Laf. Apr. 6, "60. fr. Pby. Mo.; pres. "^Westminster Col- 
lege, "64-65; sup. Fulton, Mo., '64-65: Sedalia 1st, '65-67; Sedalia, 2d, '70-72; 
Long-wood, "72-78; D. & T.; D. D., Center Coll., '58; m. May 2, '44, Kate Rennick, 
Frankfort, Ky. ; d. Feb. 10, '99, Longwood, Mo. 

JOHN HANCOCK, b. England; sup. Council Bluffs, la., Liberty, Mo.; rec. 
Pby. Laf., Sep. 22, '60, fr. Pby. Upper Missouri; sup. Kansas City 1st; dism. 
Apr. 19, '62, to Pby. Philadelphia. 

SA:MUEL WILLIAMSON MITCHELL, b. Memphis, Tenn.; grad. Center, 
'57: Danville, '60; lie. Apr. 9, '59, Pby. Laf.; ord. Sep. 25, '60, do.; sup. Little 
Osage: dism. Apr. 13, '66 to Pby. Sangamon; rec. Pby. Osage, Apr. 10, '78, fr. 
Pbv. St. Louis: sup, Warsaw, Windsor, Sunnvside, Osceola, Brownington; dism. 
Apr. 12, '82. ^ 

JAMES H. BAIRD, b. Lebanon twp., Pa. ; grad. Jefferson, '43 ; theol. priv. ; 
lie. Oct. 6, '47, Pby. New Castle; ord. Mar. 4, '52, Pby. Wooster; sup. Vicks- 
burg, Miss., '51; Wooster, 0., '52-57: Lock Haven, Pa., '57-60; rec. Pby. Laf., 
Nov. 3, '60, ir. Pby. Northumberland; sup. Westport, Mo., and Wyandotte, Kan. ; 
dism. Dec. 3, '61, to Pby. Philadelphia; A. M., Del. C, '47, D. D., F. & M. C, Pa., 
'87. 

GEORGE MILLER, b. Sep. 3, '34, Chester dist., S. C; s. Robert H. Milljr 
and Susan McAlily; grad. Center, '57; Danville, '60; lie. Apr. '59, Pby. Tran- 
sylvania; ord. Nov. 4, '60, Pby. Laf.; p. Pleasant Hill, '60-67; iiN:iled during 
Civil War, meanwhile supplying Kansas City 1st, Jan. '63 to Aug. '64; invalid 
for some years, during which he sup. Greenwood, Raymore, Kingsville, Bethel ; 
dism. Apr. 14, '77 to Pby. Platte; sup. Oregon and New Point, Mo., 76-81; St. 
Joseph 2d, '81-83; readm. Dee. 18, '83, Pby. Osage, fr. Pby. Upper Mo. (U.S.) ; p. 
Nevada, '83-88; Presby'l Supply, '88-89; dism. Apr. '89 to Pby. Platte; D. D., 
Highland Univ., '91; author of Missouri's Memorable Decade; m. Jan. 16, '62, 
Mary W. Hockaday, Pleasant Hill, Mo.; d. Jan. 11, 1900, Kansas City, Mo. 

\sei 

HENRY HAMBLETON CAMBERN, b. Oct. 9, 1811, Marion Co., Ky.; grad. 
Princeton T. S., '39: ord. Apr. 7, "40, Pby. Salem; p. Jeffersonville, Ind., '40-41, 
Charlestown, '43-52: Bridgeton, '46-52;" Walnut St., Louisville, Ky., '52-54; 
Rushville, '55-60; rec. Pby. Laf. Apr. 11, '61 fr. Pby. White Water; sup. Mar- 
shall, '60-63 ; left during the War. 

1864 

ISAAC WASHINGTON CANFIELD, b. Dee. 27, '23, Morristown, N. J.; 
grad. Center, "44; stud. Princeton, '48-50; lie. '50; ord. Oct. 17, '52, Pby. Upper 



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Mo.: Miss'y in Dekalb, Clinton and Caldwell Cos., Mo., '51-57; Ray Co., '58-62; 
Mulberry, Ky., "63 ; ree. Pby. Laf . ; teacher and evang't, Westport, '64-67 ; m. 
Oct. 2, '50, Selina Morton, Shelby Co., Ky.; d. Jan. 14, '99, Parsons, Kan. 

1865 

GEORGE KERR SCOTT, b. Aug. 17, '37, Washington, Pa.; grad. Washing- 
ton '55; Western, '58; lie. Pby, Washington, '58; ord. Apr./'59, ib.; sup. Lock- 
hart, Tex., '60; Wayne and Chester, 0., '61-62; Virginia, 111., '63-65; ree. Pby. 
Laf., Apr. 14, '65 fr. Pby. Sangamon; sup. Independence, '65-66; dism. Apr. 15, 
'67 to Pby. Salisbury ; m. Nov. 24, '59, Ella Taylor Beatty, Mobeetie, Tex. ; d. Jan. 
10, '89, Mobeetie, Tex. 

CHARLES STURDEVANT, grad. Miami, '32 ; sup. Lawrenceburg, Ind., and 
Elizabethtown, 0., '36-38; Richmond, Ind., '38-41; ill health, '41-44; Connors- 
ville, Ind., '44-46 ; Hamilton, 0. ; princ. of a school, Springfield, O. ; gen. agt. 
Bd. Dom. Missions; rec. Pby. Laf., Apr. 16, '66 fr. Pby. Muncie; sup. Kansas 
City 1st, Greemvood, Independence; dism. Apr. 5, '70; to Pby. Leavenworth; d. 
July 31, '86, Earned, Kan. aged 79. 

1866 

TIMOTHY HILL, b. June 30, '19, Mason, N. H.; s. Rev. Ebenezer Hill and 
Abigail Jones (Stearns) ; grad. Dartmouth, '42; Union, '45; teacher; lie. by 
3d Pby. N. Y., Apr. 18, '45; ord. Pby. St. Louis, Oct. 22, '46; sup. Lagrange, Mo., 
'45-46; St. Charles, Mo., '46-51; Fairmount, ch., St. Louis, Mo. 
*51-60; Synodical Mis'y Mo., '60-61; Rosamond, 111., '61-63; Shelbyville, '63-65; 
rec. Pby. Lex., Apr. 20, '66 fr. Pby. Wabash; orgz'd Second ch. Kansas City, sup. 
it '65-68; rec. Pby. Osage, at Reunion; Synodical Missionary, for Mo., Kan., 
Ind. Ter and Texas, "68-87 ; Mod. N. S. Syn. Mo., "57 and '69, of Syn. after Re- 
union, '70 and '79; Stated Clerk, do., '68-70; editor, Presbj^terian Recorder; 
D. D., Highland Univ., '74; m. Nov. 2, '54, Frances A. Hall, St. Louis, Mo.; 
d. May. 21, '87, Kansas City, Mo. 

GEORGE W. GOOD ALE, b. May 1, '21, W. Boylston, Mass.; grad. Amherst, 
'48; theol. priv.; carpenter, teacher, R. R. agt.; lie. Sep. 6, '56, Pby. Peoria and 
Knox; ord. Nov. 8, '59, Bloomington; s. s.. Kappa and El Paso, 111., '56-59; 
Vandalia, '60-62; tea. Carbondale, 111.; chaplain U. S. Army; sup. Greenville, 
111.; teacher, Weston, Mo.; '65-68; rec. Pby. Lex. Apr. 20, '66; rec. Pby. Osage, 
at Reunion; in business, Kansas City, '68-73; s. s. Knob Noster, and La Monte, 
'73-74; dism. Apr. 10, '74, to Pbv. Topeka; m. Sep. 15, '49, Mary Hope, Clinton, 
N. J. ; d. Sep. 28, '99, Chicago, 111. 

JOHN M. BROWN, s. Rev. Amos P. Bro^vn; rec. Pby. Osage, Apr. 27, '66 fr. 
Pby. Bloomington; reorganizer of the Pby. Osage; sup. Warsaw; dism. at Re- 
union to Pby. Ozark. 

ALBERT GALLATIN TAYLOR, b. Oct. 3, 1810, in Tenn.; s. Leroy Taylor; 
educ. Maryville, Tenn.; teacher in Tenn. and Mo.; lie. Sep. 8, '37, Pby. French 
Broad; rec. by Pby. Osage before the War, also at reorg'n in 1866; all his work 
was as a Home Mis'y, mainly in southern Mo. ; dism. at Reunion to Pby. Ozark 
m. July 12, '38 ; d. Nov. 5, '95. 

WILLIAM S. MESMER, U. S. Army, 3 yrs.; rec. Pby. Osage, at orgz'n, Apr. 
27, '66, fr. Pby. Utica; sup. Warsaw and Salem; dism. Apr. 2, "69 to Pby. Mon- 
roe. 

JOSHUA BARBEE, b. Danville, Ky.; educ. Center C. and Danville S.; lie. 
'61, Pby. Transylvania; ord. Oct. 9, '66, Pby. Laf.; sup. Smithton, Sedalia, Knob 
Noster and Warrensburg, during the Civil War; Mt. Olive and Pisgah, '66ff.; 
D."& T.; d. Nov. 1900, Excelsior Springs, Mo. 

SETH GOLD CLARK, b. Aug. 13, '17, Masonville, N. Y.; s. Daniel Watts 
Clark and Charity Gold ; grad. Western Reserve, '43 ; Western Reserve Sem. '46 : 
lie. Oct. 7, '45, Pby. Cleveland; ord. May '47, do.; sup. Hudson, Bainbridge, 



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Aurora, 0. ; dist. sec. A. B. C. F. M.,11 vrs. ; chaplain 10th 0. V. Cavalry, '62-65; 
chaplain of House of Correction and Seamen's Friend Soc, Detroit, Mich., '65; 
rec. Pby. Lex., Oct. 12. '06 fr. Pbv ; rec. Pby. Osage, Apr. 24, '68: re- 
organizer for Pbys. of Lex. and Osage after the War; orgz'd and sup. Holden, 
Greenwood, Harrisonville, Austin, Butler, Appleton City. Papinsville. Lone Oak 
and^Lamar; dism. Apr. 21, '71 to Pby. Highland: financial agt. Highland Univ., 
'71-7G; the last two summers with rais y tent in northern Kansas and southern 
Nebraska ; sup. Tola and Carlyle, Kan., 2 yrs. ; Baxter Springs, Galena and Em- 
pire, Kan.; readm. Pby. Osage, Apr. 13, "81. fr. Pby. Neosho; orgz'd and sup. 
Eich Hill, Rockville and Hume; redism. Sep. 23, '85 to Pby. Larned. ors'z'd 8 
chs. in S. W. Kan.: sup. Yates Center, Kan.; readm. Pby. K. C, Apr. 9, '95, fr. 
Pby. Neosho; sup. Raymore; H. R. '96; m. Apr. 20,'56, Lucy Peck, Ruggles. 0.: 
m. 2d Apr. 7, '75, Emma Perry, Milan, O.; d. Apr. 22, '98, Appleton Citv, Mo. 

NELSON HORACE SMITH, b. May 9, '30, Blair=ville, Pa.: lie. '60, Pby. 
Ohio; ord. '61, Pby. Kansas: rec. Pby. Laf., Oct. 12, '66, fr. Pby. Upj.cr Mol : 
transferred by SjTiod in order to make a quorum for the reorgaz'n of Pbr. Laf. 
dism. Feb. 19, '67 to Pby. Up. Mo. ; m. May 1, '66, Jennie N. Lloyd. 

GEORGE ERASER, educ. Center and Jefferson Cs.; rec. Pby. Laf., Oct. 12. 
'66, by order of Synod; sup. Kansas City 1st; dism. Apr. 6, '69 to Pbv. 
Kaskaskia. 

SELATHIEL MILTON IRWIN, b. Nov. 23, '36, South Salem, 0. ; s. Wm. iS. 
Irwin and Sarah McMunn: grad. Hanover, '61: Princeton, '66; princ. Han- 
over, Ind., High School, '62-63; lie. June 6, '65, Pby. Chillicothe; ord. Nov. 
25, '66, Pby. Southwest Missouri; sup. Little Osage and Big Drywood (Mar- 
miton), '66-67; dism. '67 to Pby. Topeka. 

1867 

EBEN MUSE. b. Oct. 31, '39, Alleghany Co., Pa.; grad. Center, '60;. stud. 
Danville, '60-61, Western, '62-63; 9th Pa. U. S. Vol. Inf., '61-62; lie. Apr. 16, 
'63, Pby. Ebenezer; ord. May "64, Pby. Chillicothe; sup. New Plymouth. 0., '63; 
Eckmanville and Mt. Leide, '63-65; rec. Pby. Laf., Feb. 19, '67 fr. Pby. 
Chillicothe; p. Warrensburg, '67-70; dism. Sep. 23, '70 to Pby. Whitewater; m. 
Feb. 16, '64, Laura Jones, Centerville, Ind.; d. July 23, '91, Quincy, Mass. 

CORNELIUS VAN HOUTTEN MONFORT, b. '35, Franklin, Ind. ; s. Rev. 
David Monfort, D. D. : grad. Knox, '61; Western, '64; lie. '63, Pby. Schuyler; 
ord. Apr. 8, '66, Pby. Kaskaskia ; sup. Butler, 111. '66 ; rec. Laf., Oct. 5, '67, fr. 
Pby. Kaskaskia; sup. Otterville; and Smithton: dism. Apr. 4, '68 to Pby. 
Topeka; d. Aug. 10, '72, Labette, Kan. 

JOSEPH HARTSEL BYERS, b. Jan. 24, '33, Sullivan Co., Tenn.; s. Benj. 
B. Byers and Mary Owen; partial college course; Danville T. S., '64; lie. Apr. 9, 
'64, Pby. Transylvania: ord. Apr. 15, '65, ib. ; sup. New Piwidence, Ky., '64; 
Somerset and Pisgah, '64-67; rec. Pby. Laf. Oct. 5, '67 fr. Pby. Transylvania; 
sup. Knob Noster and Sugar Creek, '67-70; memb. Pby. Osage at Reunion; sup. 
Kansas City Third, '70-71; Lexington, '71-74; dism. Sep. 9, '74 to Pby. San 
Francisco; readm. Pby, Osage, Oct. 2, '77 fr. Pby. Sacramento; orgz'd ch. at 
Nevada, sup. it '78-80; redism. to Pby. Topeka, Apr. 14, '80; m. July 11, '65, 
Martha J. Andrews, New London, N. H. ; d. Mar. 29, 1900; buried at Knob 
Noster. 

ALANSON CARROLL, b. Feb. 14, '32, Granville, O.; s. Anthony Wayne 
Carroll and Belinda Root; grad. Western Reserve, "58; tlieol. mostly priv., Mc- 
Cormick, '64-65; teacher, Charleston, 111., '58-66; Independence, Mo., '68-74; 
Olathe, Kan.; '74-81; Hays City, Kan., '81-85; Independence, Mo., since '85; 
lie. '65, Pby. Palestine, ord. same time: never a pastor; rec. Pby. Laf., Oct. 12, 
'67, fr. Pby. Palestine; dism. Apr. 17, ',75 to Pby. Topeka; A. M., Western Re- 
serve '61 ; m. '58, Mary T. ]\Iurch, Reynoldsburg, O. 

ENOS M. HALBERT, b. Mar. 19, '34. Wilson Co., Tenn.; s. Joel B. Halbert 
and Tirzah Sherrell; educ. North Prairie Inst., Hickory Co.; stud, theol. "on 



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horseback and at home, teaching self, s. w. Mo.;" farmer, miller, student, 
soldier, merchant, '43-66; lie. Apr. 28, '66, Pby. Osage; ord. Oct. 13, '67, do. (no 
quorum present) ; sup. Sunnyside, Mt. Salem and Calhoun; dism. at Reunion to 
Pby. Ozark; m. May 1, '72, Amanda M. Taylor, Walnut Grove, Mo. 

1868 

CYRUS H. DQNLAP, b. Oct. 12, '34, Butler Co., Pa.; s. James Dunlap and 
Clarrissa Stoughton; Westminster C, Pa., '61; Western, '67; lie. Apr. 12, '63, 
Pbv. Beaver; ord. Apr. 26, '64, Pby. Allegheny City; sup. North eh., Allegheny 
Citv, Pa., '64-66; Carondelet, Mo., '67-68; rec. Pby. Laf., Apr. 4, '68, Pby. St. 
Louis; sup. Sedalia 1st, '68-72; dism. Apr. 20, '72, Pby. Ozark; m. Apr. 12, '58, 
Miss A. B. Johnson. 

JAMES YOUNG, b. Nov. 5, '24, Mercer Co., Pa. ; s. Wm. Young, Margaret 
Buchanan; grad. Washington, '49; Western, '52; lie. Apr. 14, '52, Pby. Erie; 
ord. Apr. 22, /54, Pby. Greenbriar; p. French Creek, Va., '52-58; New Salem, O., 
'58-63; chap. 81st Ohio Vols., U. S. A., '63-64; Miss'y to Freedmen; rec. by Pby. 
Laf., Apr. 4, '68, fr. Pby. Sydney; Sup. High Point, '67-73; H. R.; m. Apr. 28, 
'57, Rosanna McAvoy; d. Oct. 26, '97, High Point, Mo. 

A. J. JOHNSON, b. England; ord. Pby. Laf., Sep. 25, '68; sup. Otterville 
and Smithton ; dism. Oct. 18, '75 to Pby. Vincennes. 

HIRAM HILL, b. Aug. 29, '32, Belleville, N. Y.; Yellow Springs C, '57 
Auburn, '61; ord. Apr. "^62, Pby. Watertown: sup. Cape Vincent, N. ,Y, '61-65; 
Austin, Nev., '65-66; rec. Pby. Lex., Oct. 1, '68; rec. Pby. Osage at Reunion; p. 
Holden, '67-73; Harrisonville, '68; Carthage, Mo., '73-74; dism. Sep. 9, '74, to 
Pby. San. Jose; m. Oct. 9, '61, Lois A. BroAvn, Auburn, N. Y. 

JOSIAH JOHNSON BROWN, b. Aug. 29, '39, Newark, N. J.; grad. Rut- 
gers, '60; stud. New Brunswick, "65-66, Union, '66-68; ord. Pby. Lex., Oct. 4, '68; 
rec. Pby. Osage, Apr. 2, '69; sup. Clinton and Austin; dism. Apr. 16, '70 to Pby. 
Humboldt. 

DUNCAN M'NAUGHTON, b. Canada; lie. Nov. 13, '67; ord. Oct. 4, '68, 
Pby. Lex.; rec. Pby. Osage at Reunion; sup. Morristown, Westpoint, et al., had 
eight preaching places at once; dism. Oct. 21, '70. 

DUNCAN CHAMBERS MILNER, b. Mar. 10, '41, Jefferson Co., O.; s. 
David M. Milner and Mary A. Chambers ; grad. Washington and Jefferson, '66 ; 
stud. Union, '66-68; Lieut. 98th Ohio Vols., U. S. A., '63-64, wounded; lie. Apr. 
'68, Pby. Brooklyn; ord. Oct. 4, '68, Pby. Lex.; rec. Pby. Osage, Apr. 2, '69 ; sup. 
Osceola, '68-71 ; Kansas City 3d, '71-75 ; dism. Sep. 15, '75 to Pby. Topeka; D. D., 
Emporia, '88; m. May 19, '68, Lucy M. Reed. 

WILLIAM LEWIS BRECKENRIDGE, b. July 22, 1803, Cabell's Dale, Ky.; 
s. Hon. John Breekenridge and Mary Cabell Hopkins; prof. Langs., Center C, 
Ivy.; pres. Oakland C, Miss.; pres. Center C, Ky. ; pres. elect Westminster C, 
Mo., '54; p. Maysville, Ky., '31; Louisville, 1st, Ky., "36-60; rec. Pby. Laf., D^c. 
24, '68; evangelistic work; sup. Bethel, Raymore, Kansas City 1st, Pleasant 
Hill ; mod. 0. S. Gen. Ass'y, '59 ; mod. Syn. Mo., '70 ; D. D., LL. D. ; d. Dec. 26, 
'76, Raymore, Mo. 

1869 

LEONIDAS JEWELL MATTHEWS, b. McMinnville, Tenn.; educ. priv.: 
lie. Oct. 13, '67, Pby. Osage; ord. Apr. 4, '69, ib. : sup. Licking, Peace Valley, 
White Rock, Mountain Grove; dism. at Reunion to Pby. Ozark. 

JOHN W. ALLEN, b. Feb. 1, '37, Belmont, 0.; s. Wm. Allen and Jane 
Workman; grad. Washington, '60; stud. Western, '60-62, Northwestern, '63; lie. 
Apr. '62, Pby. St. Clairsville; ord. '64, Pbv. Lima; p. Van Wert, 0., ''63-66; 
Lake City, Minn., '66; Young America, HI., '66-68; rec. Pby. Laf., Sep. 29, 
'69; evang'c and edit'l work, Kansas City, '(:8-71 ; Pres'l Miss'y, '71-i2; Synod'l 
Miss'y, Mo., '72-80; ed. St. Louis Evangelist, '79-81; dist. sec. Bd. Pub. & S. S. 



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Work, '81ff.; dism. to Pbv. St. Louis, Apr. 12, '82; D. D. Wooster, 79; m. Nov. 
29, '64, Roxana Purmort, Van Wert, O. ; d. Feb. 12, '99, Martinsville, Ind. 

ROBERT IRWIN, b. Jan. 1, '33, Oxford, 0.; grad. Hanover, '54; Western, 
'57; lie. Apr. 5, '56, Pby. Muncie; ord. Apr. '57, Pby. Logansport; p. West 
Union and Bethleliem, Ind., '56-64; chaplain 46th Ind. Vols., U. S. A., '61-(j2 : 
Waveland, Ind., '64-68; rec. Pby. Laf., Sep. 29, '69; p. Kansas City 1st, '69-73: 
dism. Apr. 9, '73. to Pby. St. Louis; D. D.; m. Apr. 17, "56, Kate M. Matthews. 
New Albany, Ind.; d. Apr. 16, '93, St. Charles, Mo. 

CHARLES DEIvAY NOTT, b. Sep. 12. '33, Norman Vale, N. Y. : grad. 
Union, '54; stud. Union T. Sem., '55-56; New Brunswick, '56-58; ord. by R. 
D. Classis of Montgomery, Oct. 25, '59; p. Ref. Dutch ch., Mohawk, N. Y., '59- 
64; Presb. ch., Manchester, N. J., '64-65; Urbana, 111., '66-69; rec. Pby. Osage 
fr. Pby. Lex. at Reunion: s. s. Kansas Citv 2d, '69-71; dism. Dee. 15, '70 to 
Pby. St. Louis; D. D., Union C, •74. 

PHILANDER READ, b. Mav 4. '30. Wattsburg, Pa.; grad. Amherst, '59; 
Auburn, '62; U. S. Army, '61-63"; chaplain, U. S. Army, '63-65; lie. '61, Pby. 
Cayuga; ord. Jan. 4, '63. by a Council of Chaplains, Carrollton, La.; sup. 
Rolla, Mo., '66 ; Center Point, Iowa, '67 ; rec. at Reunion fr. Pby, Lex., by 
Pby. Osage; sup. xlustin and Harrisonville, '69; also iSugar Creek, 69-73; dism. 
Sep. 10, '73; to Pby. Emporia; m. Oct. 1, '68, Amelia Lindia McNeill, 
Center Point, la. : m. 2d Apr. 29, '74, Mary Jane Museott, Lewis Co., N. Y. 

1870 

JOSEPH ADDISON WHITAKER, b. July 3, '26; Philadelphia, Pa.; s. 
James Whitaker and Sarah Adams; grad. Delaware, '52; theol. priv. under Jas. 
P. Wilson, D. D.: lie. Apr. 10, '51, Pby. Philadelphia 4th; ord. Oct. 8, '51, do.; 
sup. Marble and Darby, Pa., '51; Belvidere, N. J., '55-59; princ. Brainerd Sem,, 
do.; chaplain 11th Pa. Vol. Cav., until injured; in charge U. S. Sanitary work at 
Annapolis, Md, ; lecturer for U. S. San. Com. in New Eng. ; also for Freedmen's 
Commission; rec. at Reunion by Pby. Osage from Pby. St. Louis; sup. Jefferson 
City, '66-73; dism. July 15, '73 to Pby. St. Louis; A. M., Del. C, also Princeton; 
m. May 24, '54, Louise Janvier, Newark, Del.; m. 2d Apr. 18, '90, Margaret E. 
Wilson, N. Granville, N. Y. 

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN POWELSON, b. Sep. 10, '40, Hampshire Co., 
(W.) Va., s. Chas. Powelson, Catharine Case; grad. Washington, '60; stud. 
Western, '60-62, '66-67: Lieut. U. S. Army, '62-65; lie. Apr. 24, '62, Pby. 
Washington; ord. Sep. 10, '68 by Pby. S. W. Mo.; rec. Pby. Osage at Reunion; 
sup. DeepAvater (Old) and Little Osage, '67-71; Montrose, 70-73; dism. Sep. 10, 
'73 to Pby. Ozark; sup. Neosho, Mo., '73-74; readm. Pby. Osage fr. Pby. Ozark, 
Sep. 13, '76; princ. Butler Acad., '76-79; dism. Sep. 9, '79 to Pby. Ozark; A. M., 
W. & J., '63; m. July 26, '70, Mersylvia J. Austin, Deepwater, Mo. 

JAMES HUTCHINSON CLARK, b. July 12, '32, Reading, 0.; grad. Miami, 
'53; stud. Princeton, '53-54, Danville, '54-56; lie. '55, Pby. Cincinnati; ord. Aug. 
19, '57, ib.; sup. Mt. Carmel, 0,, '56; Monroe, '56-57; .Somerset and Pisgah, '57- 
58; in N, J,, '58-61: agt. Seamen's Friend Soc, '61-62; sup. Council Bluffs. la. 
■,62-66; ill health, '67; St. Louis, Mo., '67-69; Washington, Mo., '69-70; rec. Pby. 
Osage, Oct. 21, '70, fr. Pby. St. Louis; sup. Warrensburg, '70-72; sec. Mo. S. S. 
Conv'n, '72-73; dism. Sep. 10, 73, to Pby. Topeka; m. Sep. 21, '58, Jennie, dau. 
Rev. John P. Van Dyke; d. Mar. 31, 1900, Kansas City, Mo. 

CEORGE WHITEFIELD IVIACMILLAN, b. Aug. 19, '27, York Co., Pa.; 
grad. Princeton T. Sem., '57; lie. Apr. '57, Pby. Philadelphia; ord. Nov. 17, '57, 
Pby. Albany; sup. Princetown, N. Y., '57-63; Lithopolis, 0., '63-66; BrunsAvick 
and Salem, 111., '66-69; rec. Pby. Osage, Oct. 21, 70, fr. Pby. Peoria; sup. Butler 
and Lone Oak, '70-72; Osceola, '72-73; dism. to Pby. Monmouth, Oct 18, '73: D. 
D., Richmond C, 0., '88; Ph. D., C. N. J., '88. 

JOHN BOYD ALLEN, b. Oct. 12. '13, iSturbridge, Mass.; Union C, '40; 
Union T. Sem., '40-41, Hartford, '41-43; ord. Apiy. 9, '45, Pby. Pennsylvania; 



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sup. Covington and Mansfield, Pa., '45-49; Austenburg, 0., '49-50; Gustavus, 0., 
'50-56 : Brooklyn, 0., '56-67 ; also Parma, '56-59 ; and Rockport, '59-67 ; w. c, 
Cleveland, 0., '67-70; rec. Pby. Osage, Oct. 21, '70, fr. Pby. Cleveland; sup. Clin- 
ton, '70-74; dism. Sep. 10, 74 to Pby. Cleveland; d. Dec. 1, '93, Brooklyn, O. 

JOHN ROBINSON AGNEW, b. June 8, ISIO, McConnelsburg, Pa.; grad. 
Dickinson, '29; stud. Union T. Seni., Va., '29-31, grad. Princeton; lie. Apr. 10, 
'34; ord. Apr. 3, '38, Pby. Allegheny; Missy to Choctaw Inds., '34-36; sup. 
Scrubgrass, Lawrenceburg and Harrisville, Pa., '37-45; agt. Lafayette C, '4C ; 
Bup. Welch Run, '49-51; Bd. of Colportage, Pa., '52-53; sup. Pine Creek, '53; Mt. 
Carmel, '53-54; Chestnut Grove, Md., '53-55; prof. Steubenville, 0., '55-59; sup. 
Center and Richmond, 0., '57-58 ; Monaghan, '60-61 ; agt. Lincoln Univ., '65-67 : 
tea. & s. s., Columbia, Tenn., '67-69; chaplain Mo. State Penitentiary, '69-71: 
rec. Pby. Osage fr. Pby. St. Louis at Reunion; agt. Am. Bible Soc, Jefferson 
City; dism. Sep. 10, 73 to Pby. Carlisle; d. Feb. 3, '88, Greencastle, Pa. 

DAVID AGNEW WILSON, b. Dec. 5, '21, Gettysburg, Pa.; grad. Marshall, 
'45; Princeton, '51; tea. in Sem. and Coll.; lie. Apr. 8, '51, Pby. Carlisle; ord. 
Apr. 9, '51, do. J Miss'y to Liberia, Africa; princ. Alexander High Sch., Monro- 
via, '51-58; sup. Stubenville 2d., 0., '58-59; Potosi, Mo., '60-61, princ. Acad, 
chaplain, U. S. Army, '61-63; p. Ironton, Mo.,' '64-69; sup. Schools, do., '68-69; 
warden Mo. State Penitentiary, '69-71; rec. Pby. Osage Oct. 21, '70 fr. Pby. St. 
Louis; financial agt. Lindenwood Coll., '71; dism. to Pby. St. Louis, Apr. 22, 
'71; D. D., Liberia, C, 79. 

•lazi 

WILLIAM M'CARER NEWTON, b. Titusville, Pa. ; s. Isaac Newton and 
Ellen Conover; grad. Knox, '62; Lane, '65; lie. '64, Pby. Cincinnati; ord. '65, 
Pby. Huron; sup. Bloomville, 0., Republic, Melrose, '65-71; rec. Osage, Sep. 13, 
'71, fr. Pbv. Huron; sup. Appleton City and Westfield, '71-75; also occas'y Mont- 
rose, Sehell City, Little Osage; p. Butler, 75-83; dism. Apr. 9, '84, to Pby. Ne- 
braska City; sup. Blue Springs, Neb., '84-86; readm. Pby. Osage, Apr. 14, '86; 
p. Raymore, '86-93; sup. Creighton, '92-93; Lowry City, and Westfield, '93-1900; 
m. May 2, '67, Cynthia J. Hamilton, Niles, 0. 

WILLIAM MAXON CHEEVER, b. Sep. 23, '18, Vernon, Ind.; s. Joshua 
and Chloe ; grad. Hanover ; Lane, '43 ; tea. Madison, Ind. ; lie. '42, Pby. Salem ; 
p. Monticello, Ind. ; Rockville 2d, '47 ; Baldwin ch. Terre Haute. '49 ; Troy, 0., 
'458-66; rec. Pby. Osage, Dec. 23, '71 fr. Pby. Cincinnati; sup. Kansas City 2d 
'71-78; m. July 8, '44, Marg. L. Jackson; m. 2d June 3, '51, Miss E. C. Ball; d. 
June 2, '78, Kansas City, Mo. 

1872 

WILLIAM C. COLEMAN (the middle initial is recently inserted), b. Nov. 
29, '36, Carrollton, O.; s. Jos. Coleman, Eliz. McKahan; grad. Miami, '60; stud. 
Western, '60-62; chaplain U. S. Army; lie. Apr. '62, Pby. Ohillicothe; ord. fall 
'62, do.; sup. Eckmanvllle, 0., '62; West Union and Manchester, 0,, '62-67; tea. 
North Liberty, 0., '67-68; rec. Pby. Osage, Apr. 20, '72 fr. Pby. Chillioothe; sup. 
Pleasant Hill, '72-75; tea. do., '75-76; dism, Sep. 11, '77 to Pby. Neosho; sup. 
Columbus, Kan., '76-81; Garnet, '81-86; Cherokee Co., Kan., '87-90; Thayer, 
'90-91; readm. to Pby. Kan. C'y, Oct. 21, '91, fr. Pby. Neosho; sup. Deepwater 
and Brownington, '91-94; Centerview, '94-95; Greenwood, do.; tea. Butler Acad., 
'95-96; sup. Fairview, Lone Oak and Schell City, '96-97; Kansas City 4th, '98, 
inst'd, Apr. 20, 1900; m. May '64, Eliz. Smith; m. 2d, 1900. 

JEFFERSON CLAY THORNTON, b. Jan. 9, '27, Salem, Ind.; s. Henry P. 
Thornton and Martha Ward; grad. Indiana Un., '48; New Albany T. Sem.; 
tea. Liberty, Mo., '56-58, also in Lawrence Co., 111., Knox Co., Ind., and War- 
rensburg. Mo.; ord. May. '32, Pby. New Albany; sup. St. Charles, Mo., '52; 
Liberty, '53; Orleans, Ind., '59-60; Mt. Carmel, 111., '60-64; Lawrenceville, '64- 
68; Palestine, 111., '71; Osborne and Easton, Mo., 71-72; rec. Pby. Ofeage, Apr. 



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20, -72 fr. Pby. Mattoon: sup. Knob Noster and LaMonte, -"72-73; H. E., War- 
rensbiirg ; disni. Oct. 21, -"91, to Pby. Lexington (Cmnb. Prbn.) ; nervous pros- 
tration, '73, fr. wh. never fully recovered: A. M., Ind. Uu.. '58 ; m. Nov. 29, '55, 
Kate E. Bird, Liberty, Mo. 

ALEX^iNDEE WALKEE, b. Feb. 27, '40, Kirkoswald, Scotland, educ. at 
Dudley, Eng.: lie. by Indep't Cli., Eng.: ord. Pby. Osage. Apr. 23, '72: sup. 
Otterville, p. Tipton,''72-83 ; p. Butler, '83-89; Synl Miss'y Mo., '89-92; came to 
America 1869 and settled on a farm near Otterville; m. Feb. 14, '63 Agnes 
Hannah., Liverpool, Eng.; d. June 11, '92, Butler, Mo. 

(JAMES) DUXCAX BEOWN, b. June 6, '44, Hannibal, Mo. : grad. Pardee, 
'68; Princeton, '71; lie. Apr. '70, Pby. Palmyra; ord. Apr. 23, '72," Pby. Osage; 
sup. Warsaw and Sunnyside. '71-72: dism. A^pr. 10. '73 to Pbv. Palmvra : A. M., 
Highland Un., '72; D. i)., do., '86. 

JOHN HENBEESON MILLEE, b. May 11, "45, Mansfield, O.; s. John K. 
Miller and Ellen Wise; grad. Wittemberg, O., '68: Princeton, '71; lie. Apr. 22, 
'70, Pby. New Brunswick; ord. Mav 5, '72, Pby. Topeka; p. Olatlie, Kan., '71-72; 
rec. Pby. Osage, Oct. 17, '72, fr. Pby. Topeka; P. Sedalia 1st, '70-76; dism. Apr. 
14., "77 to Pby. Topeka; p. Junction City, Kan., '76-81; readm. Pby. Osage, Sep. 
14; "81, fr. Pby. Topeka; sup. Kansas City Second, ;81-82; p. Kansas City 4th. 
"83-88; p. Eich Hill, '89-98; p. Nevada^ '98; D. D., Highland Un., '85; m'. 
Frances Orr, Junction City, Kan. 

1873 

WILLLIM HENDEESON HILLIS, b. July 22, '41 ; Jefferson Co., Ind.; 
grad. Miami, '65; Western, '68; lie. Apr. "67, iPby. Allegheny; ord. June "69, 
Pby. Carlisle, p. Gettysburg, Pa., '69-72; rec. Pby. Osage, Apr. 9, '73, fr. Pby. 
Platte: p. Warrensburg, "73-75; sup. Centerview, '74-76; dism. Sep. 11, '77 to 
Pby. Crawfordsville. 

WILLIAM JAMES LEE, grad. Marietta, '62; Lieut., 116th Ohio Inf.; 
grad. Lane T. Sem., '68; sup. Greencastle, Ind.; rec. Pby. Osage, Apr. 9, '73, fr. 
Pbv. Indianapolis; p. Holden. Oct. 18, '73-Noy. 7, '82; dism. Sep. 29. "86 to Pby. 
St. Louis; D. D., Marietta, '87. 

JOHN BACOX VAWTEE, b. May 26, '36, Franklin, Ind.; grad. Hanover, 
'59 Western, '62; Lie. Apr. 13, '62, Pby. Indianapolis; Ord. '63, Pby. Dubuque; 
p. Prairie and Buncomb, la., '63-67: Okamaw, Minn., '67-68; rec. Pby. Osage, 
Apr. 9, '73, fr. Pby. Xeosho; sup. Freeman; dism. Sep. 9, '74, to Pby. Ozark. 

HOEACE CAETEE HOVEY, b. Jan. 28, "33, Fountain Co., Ind.; s. Edmund 
Otis Hovey and Mary Carter: grad. Wabash, '53; Lane, '57; lie. July '57, Pby. 
Crawfordsville: ord. Apr. 10, '58, Pby. Madison; sup. Madison and Vevay, Ind., 
"57-59; Coldwater. Mich.. '60-62: at the same time dist. sec. for the Northwest 
of the Am. & Foreion Christian Union; Florence, Mass., '62-66; U. S. Cliristian 
Commission, '64-65^^ p. New Albany 2d, Ind., "66-69; Fulton St., Peoria, '69-73; 
rec. Pby. Osage, July 15. '73, fr. Pby. Peoria; p. e., Kansas City 1st, '73-75; 
dism. Apr. 12, '76 to Pby. Westchester: A. M., D. D.. F. G. S." A., etc.; m. 
Nov. 18, '57, Helen L. Blatchley, New Haven, Ct. 

1874 

HAET^LINN STAUSS, b. Asmushausen, Germany; edue. Dubuque: lie. '72, 
Pby. Wisconsin Eiver; ord. Apr. 15, '74, Pby. Osage; sup. Lions, 111., New Frank- 
fort, Mo.; dism. Apr. 13, '76, to Pby. St Louis. 

WILLIAM GEOEGE KEADY, b. Feb. 25, '33, Baltimore, Md.; s. Wm. and- 
Isabella; grad. Jefferson, '56; theol. priv. ; tea. Tenn., '57, in Miss., '58-70; lie. 
Apr. 10, '72, Pby. Springfield; ord. Oct. 25, '72. do.: p. Williamsyille and Daw- 
son, 111., '72-73 ;\-ec Pby; Osage, Apr. 15, '74, fr. Pby. Springfield; sup. Jeffer- 
son City, '73-75; dism. to Pby. Platte, Oct. 15, '75; studied law; lost right arm 
at Vicksburg. 



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JAMES F. BKUNER, b. Apr. 19, "22, Vincennes, Ind., s. John Brunei and 
Eliz. Dunnica ; stud. Hanover, 6 yrs. ; stud. New Albany T. Sem. ; grad. medi- 
cine, Louisville Med. Coll., '43 ; St. Louis Med. C, '48 ; practiced med. at Bruns- 
wick, Weston and St. Joseph, Mo.; princ. Fern. Acad., Independence, Mo., '50-58; 
V. P. of Pleasant Ridge Coll., Mo., '58-60, and there preached every Sabbath, 
while a Ruling Elder in the church ; pres. Grandview Coll. Mo., '60-62 ; surgeon 
in U. S. Army, 7th Mo. Cavalry, '62^ called "the preaching surgeon;" surgeon in 
Gen. Hospital, St. Joseph, Mo., '63-65; lie. Apr. 16, '74, Pby. Osage; ord. Apr. 
17, 75, ib.; sup. Malta Bend and Salt Springs, "74-77; dism. Apr. 10, '78, to 
Pby. Trinity; sup. Terrell and Lawrenceville, Tex.; Chillicothe 3d, 0; readm. 
Pby. Osage, Sep. 11, '84, fr. Pby. Trinity; redism. Dee. 17, '89, to Pby. Omaha; 
m. Oct. 17, '44, Mary W. Fulton, Brunswick, Mo.; m, 2d Oct. 23, '93, Jessie A. 
Van Doren, Washington, D. C. 

REUEL DODD, b. Dec. 3, '37, Licking, O.; grad. Wittemberg, '66; s. stud. 
Western, '66-68, Danville, '68-69; lie. May, '68, Pby. Rickland; ord. Apr. 22, "69, 
Pby. Fairfield; p. Bloomfield, la., '69-71; Macon City, Mo., '71-74; rec. Pby. 
Osage, Sep. 9, '74, fr. Pby. Palmyra; p. Clinton, '74-78; dism. ad interim, '78; m. 
May 19, '69, Abbie Welch. 

JAMES FRANCIS WATKINS, b. July 13, '43 Point Pleasant, W. Va.; s. 
Henderson Watkins and Rose Anna Capehart ; stud. Westminster, '68-70 ; thaol. 
priv. under N. L. Rice, D. D.; lie. Apr. 18, "70, Pby. Lafayette (D. & T.) ; ord. 
Apr. 7, '71, ib. ; sup. Clinton, Brownington, Bolivar and Papinsville, to '74; rec. 
Pby. Osage, Sep. 9, '74, fr. Pby. Lafayette; sup. Brownington and Osceola, '74- 
75; dism. Sep. 14, '75, to Pby. Austin; readm. Apr. 9, '79, fr. Pby. Trinity; sup. 
Montrose, '79-82; p. Osceola and Brownington, '82-86; p. Rich Hill, '86-87; dism. 
Apr. 11, '88 to Pby. St. Louis; sup. DeSoto, Mo.; readm. Sep. 23, '90, fr. Pby. St. 
Louis; sup. Jefferson City, '90-94; Butler, "95-97; Pastor-at-Large since '97; m. 
Jan. 1, '73, Ellen G. Lilley, Osceola, Mo. 

1875 

JASPER V. A. WOODS, b. 1804, Abingdon, Va.; educ. Maryville, Tenn.; 
ord. ab. '36 ; Miss'y in Ind., la., Kan. and Mo. ; rec. Pby. Osage, Apr. 16, '75, fr. 
U. P. Pby. Western Mo.; sup. Greenwood; d. Mar. 7, '91, Greenwood, Mo.; M. D. 

JAMES S. POAGE, b. July 13, '21, Brown Co., 0.; s. Robert Poage and 
Sarah Kirker-; grad. Ripley, '42; stud, theol. at Lane and priv.; merch't '66-74; 
lie. Oct. 12, '45, Free Fresb'n Pby. Ripley; ord. May "46, ib.; p. Felicity, O. sup. 
West Alexander, Pa. ; Aledo, 111.; rec. Pby. Osage, Sep. 15, '75, fr. Central West 
Cong'l Ass'n of Illinois; sup. Centerview, '75-86; dism. Apr. 11, '88, to Pby. St. 
Louis; chaplain 17th 111. Inf., U. S. xlrmy; m. '46, Anna Voris, Marietta, 0.; 
m. 2d, '49, Susan L. Evans, Ripley, 0.; d. Aug. 22, '98. 

'(CHARLES) FREDERICK (WILLIAM) (VANDER) LIPPE, b. Sep. 11, 
'85, Maltz, Silesia, Prussia; grad. Elizabeth Gymnasium, Breslau, '52; stud. 
Danville, ",64-66, Princeton, '66-67; lie. '66, Pby. Transylvania: ord. Sep. 16, '67, 
Pby. St. Louis; sup. Salem, Mo., '67-75; rec. Pby. Osage, Sep. 15, '75, fr. Pby. 
St. Louis; sup New Frankfort, '75-77; dism. Sep. 10, '79 to Pby. Schuyler. 

ANTHONY WAYNE COLVER, b. Jan. 23, '44, East Liberty, O. ; s. Burrill 
M. Colver and Mary Lane; grad. Washington and Jefferson, '66; stud. North- 
western, '69, and post grad.; lie. Apr. '69, Pby. Chicago; ord. Oct. '71, Pby. Otta- 
wa ; sup. Spring Valley, Au Sable Grove, and Plate, 111., Hopkinsville, Ky. ; rec. 
Pby. Osage, Oct. 16, '75, fr. Pby. Louisville; sup. Kansas City 1st, '75-77; 
Pleasant Hill, '77-78; dism. Oct. '78, to Pby. Iowa; m. Oct. 25, '71, Eliza M. 
Plutchinson, Spring Valley, 111. 

1876 

LYCURGUS RAILSBACK, b. Dec. 14, '34, Richmond, Ind.; grad. Wabash, 
'62 Lane, '67; lie. Pby. Cincinnati; chaplain, U. S. Army; ord. '64; Penn Mis- 
sion, Concinnati, '67-68; chaplain Five Points House of Industry, N. Y. City, 



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'68-70, where he began the first Christian work for the Chinese in the U. S.; 
Miss'y in Iowa, 70-71; sup. Juneau, Wis., '71-75; rec. Pby. Osage, Sep. 13, '76, 
fr. Pby. Winnebago; sup. Kansas City 3d, '75-83; evangelistic work, '83-95; 
Pastor, al-large, '95-97; m. Sep. 27, '66, Eliz. J. Binford, Thronton, Ind.; d. Aug. 
5, '97, Shreveport, La. 

FAREL HART, rec. Pby. Osage, Sep. 13, '76, as lic't, fr. Pby. Chicago; ord. 
Dec. 5, '76, Pby. Osage; sup. Warrensburg, '76; dism. Sep. 11, '77, to Pby. Kala- 
mazoo; he and his bride went down in the "Alpena" wreck, bodies never re- 
covered. 

1877 

WILLIAM M. REED, b. ab. 1813; stud. Jefferson Coll.; theol. priv. under 
Dr. Morton; tea. in the South and in Mo.; lie. Pby. Redstone; ord. ab. 1830, 
Classis of St. Joseph; sup. a Reformed Church in Iowa; joined the Maumee 
Pby. '58; rec. Pby. Osage, Apr. 12, 77, fr. Pby. Platte; sup. Schell City, '77-78; 
H. R. for many years; m. twice; d. Schell City, Mo., Mar. 24, '99. 

HENRY M. SHOCKLEY, b. Dover, Del. ; grad. Miami, '55 ; Northwestern, 
'57; lie. Pby. Oxford, '57; ord. '59, Pby. Whitewater; p. Cambridge City, Ind., 
'59-62 ; princ. Pub. Sch., Newcastle, Ind., '63-69 ; sup. Connersville, Ind., '68-69 ; 
p. Belle Center and Huntsville, 0., '70-71; rec. Pby. Osage, Apr. 12, '77, fr. Pby. 
Bellefontaine; p. Sedalia 1st, '76-80; dism. Sep. 14, '81 to Pby. Earned. 

RICHARD H. JACKSON, b. Jan. 24, '29, Westmoreland Co., Pa. ; s. John 
M. Jackson and Sarah Sterling; grad. Jefferson, '55; Western, '60; princ. Acad., 
St. Francisville, Mo., '55-56; tea. Hamilton, 111., '56-57; lie. Jan. 4, '60, Pby. 
Blairsville; ord. Dec. 6, '61, Pby. Ft. Wayne; sup. Ebenezer, Pa., '60; Bluffton 
find Murray, '60-65 ; pres. Lebanon Pres'n Acad., '65-67 ; sup. Gettysburg and 
Covington, '67-68, and tea. at Gettysburg; princ. Bloomingburg Acad., 0., and 
sup. Mt. Sterling ch., '68-70; supt. schools, Atchison, Kan., '70-76; rec. Pby. 
Osage, Oct. 2, 77, fr. Pby. Highland; sup. Westfield, '77-91, and kept an acad. 
there; also sup. Appleton City, 77-82; and Deepwater, '86-90; dism. Sep. 16, 
'91, to Pbv. St. Louis; sup. Jonesboro, and Ridge Station, Ark., '91-95; readm. 
Pby. Kan."^ C'y, Apr. 25, '95, fr. Pby. St. Louis; sup. Creighton, '95-96; Tipton, 
'96-97; dism. Apr. 12, "99 to Pby. Los Angeles; A. M., Jefferson, '58; m. Mary 
Sanders Kerr, Dec. 27, '60. 

(878 

SAMUEL BOOKSTAVER BELL, b. Montgomery, N. Y. ; s'. Archibald Bell 
and Pamelia Millspaugh; stud. Montgomery Acad., N. Y. City and Brooklyn; 
adra'd to bar; theol. priv.; teacher, politician and editor; lie. '52, Pby. 
Onondaga; ord. '52, do.; sent by A. H. ]M. S. to California. '52 : p. Oakland, Cal., 
'53-63; Central ch., N. Y. City, '64-66; p. Lyons 1st, '66; sup. Hillsdale, Mich., 
'73; chap. Washington Coll., Cal.; sup. 1st Cong, ch., Mansfield, O., '76; rec. 
Pby. Osage, Apr. 9, '78, fr. Pby. Monroe; p. Kansas City 1st., '77-82; editor of 
the Mid-Continent, etc.; H. R., '89; D. D., Ingraham Univ.; founder of Univ. of 
Cal.; m. '45, Sophia Brown Walsworth, Montgomery, N. Y. ; d. Dec. 27, '97, San- 
ta Barbara, Cal. 

F. C. SWARTZ, rec. Pby. Osage, Apr. 10, '78, fr. Pby. Nebraska; sup. New 
Frankfort; dism. Apr. 8, '79." 

CHARLES FUELLER, b. Mar. 19, '36, Steinschoenau, Bohemia; grad. 
Westminster, '61; Princeton, '64; ord. Aug. 27, '65, Pby. Palmyra; sup. Hanni- 
bal, Mo., '64-68; Mexico, '68-72; Oxford, 0., '72-73; Hillsboro, 111., 74-77; rec. 
Pby. Osage, Apr. 10, '78, fr. Pby. Alton; p. Warrensburg, "77-83; dism. Sep. 12, 
'83, to Pby. Pueblo; m. Nov. 15, '66, Annie R. McElroy, Hannibal, Mo. 

CHARLES PHILANDER BLAYNEY, b. Nov. 21, '48, Wheeling, W. Va.; s. 
Vincent jNI. Blayney and Mary Donahey; grad. Washington and Jefferson, '69; 



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Western, '78; in business, '69-75; lie. Sep. 26, '77, Pby. Washington; ord. Dec. 
5, '78. Pby. Osage; sup. Wadesbuig and Austin, '78-84; Raymore, '84-85; dism. 
Apr. 18, '86, to Pby. Platte; m. Oct. 4, '81, Maggie S. Wallis, Creighton, Mo. 

1879 

JOSEPH PLATT, b. May 8, 1810, Londonderry, Ireland; grad. Center, '34; 
Princeton, '39; tea. '34-36; ord. Dec. 10, '40, Pby. Transylvania; sup. Westches- 
ter, Ky., '40-55 ; La Grange, Tenn. ; Shiloh, Paris, Palestine, West Urbana, 111. ; 
Indiana, '55-56; Farmington, '57-59; Camp Creek, '60-62; Pittsfield, '62-64; 
Lenox and Shiloh, '64-66; Virginia, '67; Franklinton, N. C, '68-70; Sugar Creek 
and Kirkland, Ind., '70-73; Rock Creek, 73-74; Bardolph, '74-78; rec. Pby. 
Osage, Apr. 8, '79, fr. Pby. Schuyler; H. R. 

ALEXANDER THOMAS ROBERTSON, b. Sep. 14, '49, Waynesburg, 0.; 
W. U., '77; stud. San Francisco, '75-77 ; Western, '77-78; tea.; lie. Apr. 26, '77, 
San Francisco Pby.; ord. Sep. 11, '79, Pby. Osage; had been Mis'y to Chinese; 
sup. Olivet ch., San Francisco, '76; Londonville, '78-79; sup. Greenwood, Pleas- 
ant Hill and Raymore, '79-82; dism. Oct. 12, *82; d. Sep. 21, '94, Iberia, 0. 

LAFAYETTE DUDLEY (usually written L. F. Dudley) b. July 2, '25, 
Bath, N. Y. ; grad. Amherst, '51; Union, '54; tea. Davenport, la., Bath, N. Y., 
Cornwall, Vt. ; lie. '54, Pby. N. Y.; ord. Feb. 8, '57, Pby. Cedar Rapids; sup. 
Genessee, N. Y. ; p. Cedar Rapids, la., '56-59; sup. Atalissa, '59-61 ; ev. Vt. 65-76; 
rec. Pby. Osage, Apr. 9, '79, fr. Pby. Westchester; sup. Freeman, Sharon and 
Bethel, '78-80; dism. Apr. 13, '81 to Pby. Emporia. 

CHARLES COTTON KIMBALL, b. May 20, '34, Newport, N. H. ; grad. 
Beloit, "59; Union, '62; ord. Sep. 11, '03, 3d Pby. N. Y.; sup. New Hartford, 
N. Y., '63-64: Leroy, '64-67; p. Erie, Pa., 1st eh., '67-71 and Central ch., '71-78; 
rec. Pby. Osage, Apr. 8, '79, fr. Pby. Erie; p. Kansas City 2d, '79-81, ev.., Boston, 
Mass., '81-83; dism. Sep. 10, '84, to Bennington Cong'l Ass'n, Vt.; D. D., Beloit, 
'78. 

DAVID L. LANDER, b. July 23, '52, Bourbon Co., Ky. ; Joseph A. Lander 
and Catharine Robnett; stud. Center; theol. priv. ; princ. Pub. Sch., Neosho, Mo. ; 
lie. Apr. 29, 75, Pby. Ozark; ord. Mar. 29, '76, ib. ; sup. Neosho, Westminster 
and Granby, Mo., '76-79; rec. Pby. Osage, Oct. 17, '79, fr. Pby. Ozark; p. Malta 
Bend and Salt Springs, '79-84; dism. fall, '84, to Pby. Emporia; sup. chs. in 
Kan., Cal., Tenn., N. C. ; readm. Pby. Kan. C'y, Apr. 12, '99, fr. Pby. Holston; 
sup. Malta Bend and Salt Springs, '98-99 ; dism. Aug. 24, 1900, to Pby. St. Johns 
(U. S.) ; Stated Clerk of Osage Pby.; A. M., Center C; m. Nov. 1, '77, Ella M. 
Allin, Carthage, Mo. 

1880 

JOSIAH MOORE, b. Sep. 18, '33, Balybay, Ireland; s. Chas. Moore and 
Hannah Rogers : stud. Westminster, Pa., '55-60 and grad. Monmouth, 111., '65 ; 
U. P. T. Sem. Monmouth, '67; Capt. Co. F., 17th 111. Vol. Inf., ;61-64; Major, 
U. S. V. : lie. by U. P. Pby. Monmouth, Apr. 4, 66 ; ord. 0. S. Pby. Peoria, May 
11, '69; sup. El Paso, 111., '67; Macon, '67-68; Canton, '68-73; Macomb, 73-79; 
rec. Pby. Osage, Apr. 14, '80, fr. Pby. Schuyler; sup. Clinton, '79-81; dism. Apr. 
13, '81, to Pby. Rock River; m. July 1, '64, Jennie E. Lindsay, Peoria, 111. 

JOSIAH THOMPSON, b. Aug. 24, '20, Canonsburg, Pa. ; s. Allen Thomp- 
son and Martha Lindsey; grad. Jefferson, '45; stud. Western, '45-47; one yr. 
priv. stud, under Rev. F. A. Hutchison; lie. Oct. 21, "56, Assoc. Pby. Chartiers; 
ord. Jan. 14, '58, i'o; sup. Clinton, Pa.; (Assoc. ch) ; Centerview, Mo. (U. P. eh), 
'67-73; Four Mile, Pa., '74-78; Mulberry, Mo., '78-79; rec. Pby. Osage, Apr. 14, 
'80, fr. U. P. Pby. Western Mo.; sup. Sharon, Freeman, Raymore, Greenwood, 
Olive Branch, Austin, Knob Noster, Salem, Lone Oak and other chs. in Osage 
Pby.; H. R.; D. D., W. & J. '97; m. Oct. 14, '47, Eliz. G. George, Washington 
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GEORGE ARXOT BEATTIE, b. Jan. 3, "43, Hebron, N. Y.: giad. Union, 
'63; stud. U. P., sem. Xenia, 0., and Princeton. "67; teacher; U. S. Army; lie. by 
1st Ohio U. P., Pby., '65; ord. May 4, '68, Pby. Dayton; sup. Xew Carlisle, O., 
'67-71; Muncie, Ind.. '71-78; 2d ch., Newark, '79-80: rec. Pbv. Osage. Sep. 14, 
'80, fr. Pby. Zanesville: p. Sedalia, '80-86: pres. Sedalia Univ., •82-84; dism. 
Sep. 29, '86. 

THOIVIAS HOOR ALLIN, lie. Sep. 29, '76, Pby. Ozark, ord. Mch. 30, '77, lb.; 
sup.. Grace Center, Preston and Medoc, Mo., rec. Pby. Osage Sep. 15, '80, fr. Pby. 
Ozark; sup. Knob Noster and Salem; dism. Sep. 13, '82, to Pby. Kingston; *d. 
Mar. 12, '89, Los Angeles, Cal., aged 69. 

1882 

WILLU\M H. ROGERS, b. Oct. 26, 1808, Greenfield, O.; grad. Miami, '35 r 
theol. priv. under Dr. Caruthers of Greenfield; lie. Sep. 11, '37, Pby. Chillicothe; 
ord. May 16, '38; preached 49 yrs. in H. M. chs. in Ohio, Ind. and 111.; rec. Pby. 
Osage, Apr. 12, '82; sup. Greenwood, also Missions in Kansas City: chaplain 
69th O. V. I. the last two and a half years of Civil War; A. M.; d. Aug. 31, "86, 
Kansas City, Mo. 

WILLIAM A. CRAVEXS, b. Feb. 15, "52, Hanover, Ind.; s. John C. Cra- 
vens and Nancy Manaugh: grad. Hanover, '75: Danville, '78; lie. Apr. 27, '77, 
Pby. Transylvania: ord. Apr. 1. 79, Pbv. Ozark: sup. Salem, Shiloh, Medoc, and 
Pleasant Valley, '78-82: rec. Pby. Osage, Apr. 12, "82, fr. Pby. Ozark; sup. Knob 
Noster and Salem, "82-85: dism. Apr. 15. "85. to Pbv. Platte: A. M., Hanover, 
'89; m. Mar. 7, "78, Mrs. Sallie A. Farrand, Danville,'Ky. 

CHARLES LEMUEL THOMPSON, b. Aug. 18, '39. Cooperstown. Pa.: grad. 
Carroll, ',58: stud. Princeton, '58-60, Northwestern. '60-61: ord. July 7, '61, Pby. 
Winnebago : sup. Juneau. Wis., '61-62 ; Zanesville. "62-67 : 1st ch. Cincinnati, O., 
'67-72: ed. Our Monthlv, '70-71: p. 5th Ch. Chicago. '72-78: ed. Interior, '75-78; 
p. 3d ch. Pittsburgh. Pa., "79-82: rec. Pbv. Osa^e. Dec. 15. '82, fr. Pby. Pitts- 
burgh: p. Kansas City 2d, '82-88: dism. July 31. "88, to Pby. N. Y.; Mod. Cen- 
tennial General Assembly, '88: D. D., Monmouth '76. 

1883 

DAVID SCHLEY SCHAFF. b. Oct. 17, '52. Mercersburg, Pa.: s. Rev. Dr. 
Philip SchafT and Mary Scliley: grad. Yale, '73: Union, '76: post grad. in Ger- 
many: ord. Oct. 28. '77, Pbv. Kearney : sup. East Baltimore. Md., "76 p. Hastings, 
NebV'77-81: edit'l work. N. Y. City. "81-83: rec. Pby. Osage, i^pr. 11, "83, fr. 
Pby. Hastings: p. Kansas City 1st' '83-88: dism. June 7, '90; D. D., Illinois 
Coil. ; m. Miss Piatt, Kansas City. 

WILLIAM ROSS:\L\N HENDERSON, b. Oct. 13, '45, New Castle, Ind.; 
s. Wm. Henderson and Martha Sun Paul : grad. Princeton C, '67 : law stud. ; 
stud. Princeton T. S.. '70-71. grad. McCormick. "76: lie. Mar. '75, Pbv. Chicago; 
ord. Apr. 13. '76, Pby. Ottawa: p. Streator. 111., '75-76; Danville 2d, Ky., '76-79; 
Harrodsburg. Ky.. '80-82: Glasgow Ave.. St. Louis, '82-83 : rec. Pby. Osage, June 
27, '83 fr. Pbv.' St. Louis: sup. Holden, '83-85: dism. ad interim. '85, "to Pbv. 
Omaha: D. D.', Center, '91; m. May 31, '73. Helen M. Van Court, Chicago. 

WILLIAM G. THOMAS, b. Sep. 21, "29. Monroe Co., Va.: s. Richard Thomas 
and Susanna Sims: grad. Hanover '60: Northwest '62; post grad. Princeton 
'65-66: lie. spring '61, Pby. Logansport: ord. fall '63, Pby. Saline; sup. Salem, 
111., '62-64, also Sandoval and Kinmundy, '62-63. and Odin. '63-64; Lexington, 
Ind. '64-65 : Stranger, Lecompton, Oskaloosa and Perry, Kan., '66-67 ; Water- 
ville and Washington, Kan.. '68: ]\Iaryyille, Mo.: Graham and Mound City: 
Minonk, 111.: Normal, 111.: Greenleaf. Kan.: 4 vrs. farming in Kan.: rec. Pbv. 
Osage, Sep. 12, '83, fr. Pby. Highland: evangelist: dism. Mar. 24. "87. to Pby. 
Topeka : A. M., Hanover: m. May 15, '62. Mattie E. Abernathv. Knightstown. 
Ind. 



MINISTEES. 



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ALBERT B. MARTIN, lie. Apr. 78, Pby. St. Louis; ord. Pby. St. Louis; 
sup. Union, Mo.. 76-79; \Yaslnngton, Mo., 79-82; rec. Pby. Osage, Sep. 12, '83, 
fr. Pby. St. Louis; p. Appleton City, "83-87; Kansas City 3d, '87-91; dism. Sep. 
16, '91, to Pby. Boulder; m. Oct. 11, '77, Mattie Stapp, St. Louis, Mo. 

JAMES HAYS ALLIX, b. Mar. 12, '52, Ketesville, Mo.; s. Rev. T. H. Allin 
and Cath. White Hays; stud. Drury; theol. priv. ; lie. Sep. 13, '82, Pby. Ozark; 
ord. Sep. 13, "83, Pby. Osage; sup. Schell City, Montrose and Providence; dism. 
ad interim, '85; to Pby. Transylvania. 

WILLL\M H. WIEMAN, b. California, Mo.; stud. Highland Un., Park C, 
gra^i. Drury, '80; Lane. "83; lie. June 27, '83, Pby. Osage; ord. Sep. 13, '83, lb.; 
p. Rich Hill, '83-86; dism. Apr. 13, '87, to Pby. Highland; m. '82, Alma F. 
Morgan, Irving, Kan. 

1884 

JOHN COLEMAN TAYLOR, b. Feb. 28, '33, Benton, N. Y. ; grad. Union C, 
'58; stud. Auburn. '58-59, Union. "59-00, Andover, "60-61; lie. May '60, Ontario 
Cong. Ass'n; ord. Feb. 11. "62, Pby. Rochester: p. Sweden Center, N. Y^, '62-65; 
sup. Chattanooga, Tenn., "65; Corrv. Pa., "05-67; St. Louis, Mo., '67; p. Groton, 
N. Y., Cong"l ch, "07-71 ; Milwaukee.' \Yi5., -72-74 : p. Cuba, N. Y.,'Pre5b"n, 75-83; 
rec. Pby. Osage, Apr. 9, '84, fr. Pby. Genessee Valley ; sup. Kansas City 5th, '83- 
86; p. Hill Memorial ch., Kansas Citv, '87-94; sup. El Dorado Springs and 
Montrose, '95-96: m. Sarah J. McCarrick, Plattsburg, N. Y".; m. 2d Sarah Life, 
Rye, N. Y^, Feb. 22, '75. 

WILSON ASDALE, b. :*Iar. 5, '46, Co. Antrim, Ireland ; grad. Western Un., 
Pa., '73; Western T. Sem., "77; lie. Oct. 3, '76, Pbv. Pittsburoh; ord. Sep. 12, 77, 
Pby. Platte; p. Gallatin. Mo., '78-81; Hays Citv. Kan., '81-82; Fairfax, Mo., 
'82-83: rec. Pby. Osage. Apr. 9. '84, fr. Pby. Platte; s. s. & p. Tipton, '83-93; 
dism. May 29, '93 to Pby.- Waterloo. 

FONTAINE ROTHWELL FARRAND, b. Dec. 24, '58, Danville, Ky.; grad. 
Center, '78: Western, '83; teacher; law student, 78-79; lie. Apr. "82, Pby. 
Ozark: ord. Mav 8. '83, ib.; sup. Joplin, Mo., '83-84; rec. Pby. Osage, Apr. 9, '84, 
fr. Pby. Ozark; p. Clinton, '84-87; dism. Mar. 24, '87, to Pby. Palmyra; m. 
Mamie Jones. 

WILLIAM EDGAR IVLICK, b. May 31, '44, Bowerstown, 0.; grad. Prince- 
ton C, 71; Princeton T. S., '74; lie. '73, Pby. Steubenville ; ord. Sep. 15, "74, 
Pby. Columbus ; p. Reynoldsburg and Mifflin. 0., '74-77 ; sup. Barnesville, '77- 
80 : p. Cedar Falls 1st, la., '81-84 ; rec. Pby. Osage, Apr. 9, '84, fr. Pby. Waterloo; 
p. Kansas City 3d, '84-86; dism. Sep. 29, '86, to Pbv. Emporia; A. M., Princeton, 
74. 

TORRENCE S. DOUGLASS, rec. Pby. Osage, Apr. 9, '84, fr. Northern Syn. 
of Indiana (Lutheran) ; sup. Roekville and Prosperity, '85-89; dism. Apr. 10, 
'89, to Pby. Sacramento. 

JA^MES GRANT BRICE, ord. about '45; rec. Pby. Osage, May 12, '84, fr. 
Cincinnati Cong. Assn. ; H. R. ; d. Jan. 5, '89, Kansas City, Mo., aged 89. 

WILLIAM M'CAUGHEY, b. Massilon, O. ; grad. Heidelberg, 0., '56 ; Hei- 
delberg T. S. ; ord. Jan. 14, '57, R. D. Classis of Tuscarawas; sup. R. D. chs. 
Navarre, 0., '57-60; Akron, '60-63; Greenville, '64-74; Miamisburg, '75-81; sup. 
Pbn. ch. Kingston, Tenn., "82-84; rec. Pby. Osage, Sep. 11, '84, fr. Pby. Dayton; 
pres. iSedalia Univ., '84-86; dism. Apr. 14, '86, to Pby. Bloomington. 

SAMUEL H. WELLER, b. Dayton, 0. ; grad. Wittemberg, 0., '58 ; MeCor- 
mick, '61; ord. '62, Pby. Chicago; sup. Roehelle, 111.; Mendota, Lincoln, Neb.; 
Morrison, 111. ; Clinton, la. ; rec. Pby. Osage, Oct. 22, '84, fr. Pby. Cedar Rapids ; 
pres. K. C. Ladies' College at Independence, '84-85; dism. Sep. 29, '86, to Pby. 
Los Angeles; A. M., '61, D. D., 75. 



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1885 

D^YIGHT KELLOGG STEELE, b. June 22, SQ, Walworth Center, N. Y.; s. 
Adna Steele and Eliz. Hinklev ; grad. Lnion C. "61; theol. priv. under Dr. L. P. 
Hickok: lie. June 25, ■02. Pbv. Erie: ord. Sep. 15. '65. ib. ; sup. East Green, Pa., 
'63-67: p. AVilloughby.C. "67-^4 : Alrnond. X. Y.. 75-8-1: rec. Pby Osage. Apr. 15, 
"85, fr. Pbv. Genessee Yalley: sup. \Yanensburg. "85-92: dism. Apr. 0, '92, to 
Pbv. Emporia ; m. Aug. 14, "61, Mary E. Mizener. Youngsville. Pa. 

LE\YIS I. DRAKE, b. Aug. 7, "26, Madison. 0.: s. Jonathan Drake and 
Eliza P. Mead; grad. Hanover, '53. Xew Albany. "55: teacher: lie. Apr. '55, Pby. 
Cincinnati: ord. Dec. '55. Pby. Sydney: p. West Libertv. 0.. '55-85: rec. Pby. 
Osao-e. Sep. 23. '85. fr. Pbv. Bellefontaine : p. Holden, '85-86; dism. Xov. 22. '86, 
to Pbv. Neosho : A. M.. D. D.. Hanover. '80 : m. Mav 10. '49. Marv A. Gaston, 
Mt. Pleasant, 0. 

JAMES LAFFEKTY, b. Feb. 10. "39. Pittsburgh, Pa.: grad. Washington, 
'60: Princeton. "70: lawyer, '63-67. Pittsburgh; lie. '70, Pby. Xew Brunswick; 
ord. June 14, '71, Pbv. Platte: sup. Weston and Platte Citv. ]\Io.. "70: p. Oregon, 
Mo., '70-72: sup. Sandy Lake, Pa.. '72-73: Xichols, X. Y.. '74-75; Shelbyville, 
Mo., '77: Xokomis and Raymond. 111.. '78-79: Hardin and Belleview. 111.. '79-80; 
Assumption and Moweagua, '81-82: Xewton and Albany. '84-85: rec. Pby. 
Osage. Oct. 21. '85, fr. Pbv. Rock River: sup. Malta Bend and Salt Springs; 
dism. Mar. 24. "87, to Pby. Ozark; LL. B.. Harvard Law Sch., '62; A. M., Wash- 
ington, '63; d. Jan. 6, '99, Washington, Mo. 

HEXRY ADDISOX XELSOX, b. Oct. 31, '20, Amherst. Mass.; s. Seth Nel- 
son and Sophia Aspenwell : grad. Hamilton, "40 ; Auburn, '46 ; tea. '40-43 ; lie. 
'45, Pby. Cortlandt; ord. Julv 29. '46. Pbv.'Cavuga: p. Auburn 1st. N. Y.. '46- 
56; p.' St. Louis 1st, Mo., '56-68; prof.'Syst! & Past. Theol., Lane T. Sem., 
'68-74; p. Geneva 1st, N. Y., '74-85; rec. Pby.' Osage, Oct. 21, '85, fr. Pay. Geneva; 
sup. Independence, '85-88, also pres. K. C. Ladies' Coll. at Independence; dism. 
• Sep. 24, '90. to Pby. Philadelphia ; Mod. X. S. Gen. Assembly. '67 : A. M., Hamil- 
ton, '43; D. D. do.] '57j^ m. Feb. 23, '47, Margaret Milh. Auburn, N. Y. 

OSCAR WILLIAM GAUSS, b. Mar. 20, '42, Glasgow, Mo.; s. Chas. W. 
Gauss and Louisa Fallenstein; grad. Washington Univ., St. Louis, '63; M. D., 
St. Louis Med. Coll., '65, Hospital course in Germany: physician, Keytesville, 
Mo.; '69-70: stud, theol. priv, under Dr. N. L. Rice; lie. Feb. '71, Pby. Missouri; 
ord. July '71, Pby, Potosi, sup. Jackson and Pleasant Hill, Cape Girardeau Co., 
Mo., '71-72: p. Cape Girardeau, '73-75: Boonville, '75-84; sup. Memphis, Mo., 
'84-85: rec. Pby. Osage, Dec. '85, fr. Pby. Palmyra; p. Jefferson City, '85-89; 
chaplain Mo. State Penitentiary, '88-92 ; dism. Oct. 5, '92, to Pby. Upper Mo.; 
m. Aug. '69, Esther Gill, St. Louis, Mo. 

1886 

JAMES EDMONSON, rec. Pby. Osage, Apr. 14, "86, fr. R. D. Classis of 
Montgomery; pres. Sedalia L^niv., '86-88; p. Nevada, '88-92; dism. June 15, '92, 
to Pby. Chippewa : Ph. D. 

CHARLES CARLETON HEMBREE. b. Oct. 22. '53, Greenfield, Mo.; grad. 
Marvville, '77: Lnion, '80; ord. Au£. 7. '81. Pbv. Kinoston; sup. Laurel Hill, 
L. I."^ "80-81; Washington, Tenn., '81": Ash Grove. Mo., "82-83; Akron. Mo., :83 ; 
rec. Pbv. Osage, Apr, 14, '86. fr, Pbv. Platte; sup. Greenwood, '86-87; clerking 
in K. C"., '87ff.; dism. Sep. 24, "90,.to'Pby. Chickasaw. 

1887 

OSCAR GILCHRIST MORTON, b. June 29, '55. Trenton, Tenn.; s. John 
V. Morton and Sallie E. Seat : srad. Vanderbit L^niv.. '76 : stud. U. T. Sem.. Va . 
'78-79: grad. Lane. '81: lie. Apr. 25. "80. Pbv. Paducah ( U. S.) : ord. .Ma\^ 10, 
'82. Pbv. Alton: p. Chester, 111., '81-84: sup. Greenville. "84-87; rec. Pby. Osage, 



MIOTSTERS. 



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Apr. 13, '87, fr. Pby. Alton; p. Holdeii, "88-1)1 ; dism. Dec. 9, 'Ol, to i'hy. North- 
umberland; m. Feb. 27, '84, Mary A. Cooke, Kansas City, M(\ 

CHARLES H. BRUCE, b. July 19, -o2, Xew Sheffield, Pa.; s. Abram Bruce 
and Christiana Cooper: arad. Alleaheny C. 79: stud. Western, '79-81; lie. Apr, 
14, '80, Pby. Erie; ord. Oct. 18, '82, Pby. Council Bluffs; p. Menlo, la., '81-84; 
Union City, Pa., '85-87; rec. Pby. Osage. Apr. 13, '87, fr. Pby. Erie; p. Kansas 
Citv. 5th, '87-97: dism. Sep. 29. "'97, to'Pbv. Xorthumberland; D. D., Allegheny 
C.,''95: m. Nov. 30, "82, Alice \Yhipple, Maiden. Mass.; m. 2d June 14, '93, Eliz. 
Graves, Marble Hill, Mo. 

JOSEPH CLEMEXTS, b. Oct. 2, '40, Walsall, Eng. ; s. Thos. Clements and 
Sarah Tetley; educ. Birmingham, Eng.; theol. priv. ; mfr. saddlery, Xewark, N. 
J., '66-71 ; lie. '73, Cong. Assn., X. Y. : ord. Dec. 3, '73, ib. ; sup. Westport, X. Y., 
(Cong.), '73-74; Pharsalia, '74-79; Marcelona, '78-80; Harbor Springs,' Mich., 
(Pbn.), '80-82; Madisonville, Tenn., '83-80; Philadelphia, Tenn. ; rec. Pby. 
Osage, Apr. 13. '87, fr. Pby. Kingston; sup. Schell City and El Dorado Springs, 
'86-88; dism. Dee. 28, '88,' to Pbv. Xeosho : sup. McCune, Kan., '88-90: readm. 
Pby. Kan. Cy., Dec. 9, '91, fr. Pby!' Xeosho: grad. K. C. Med. Coll., '91 ; physician, 
K. C. : demitted the ministry, Oct. '99 : m. Jan. '05, Kezia ISI. Wheeley, Walsall, 
Eng. ' 

JOHX HERROX, b. July 19, '51, Harrison Co., 0.; s. Rey. Dr. Robt. Her- 
ron and Mary E. McMurray; grad. sc'c, Washington and Jefferson, '69; Prince- 
ton, '76; lie. Apr. 29, '75, Pby. Steubenyille ; ord. Xoy. 8, '76, Pby. Lake Super- 
ior; sup. Onotonagon, Mich., '76-77 ; p. Atlantic, la., "77-87 : rec. Pby, Osage, Apr. 
13, '87, fr. Pby. Council Bluffs; p. Sedalia 1st, '87-88. do.. Broad^yay ch., '88-90; 
dism. Sep. 25,' "90; M. S., W. & J., "94; m. June 26, '77, Mary Agiies Johnston, 
Xew Hagarstown, 0. 

SAMUEL MILLER WARE, b. Apr. 20, '52, Richmond, Ky.; grad. 111. Wes- 
leyan Uniy., '79; stud. Western, '81-83, Xorth^yestern, grad. '84: supt. Pub. 
Sch., '79-81; lie. Apr. 10, '83, Pby. Allegheny: ord. May 6, '84, Pby. St, Louis; 
sup, Ferguson, Mo., '83; Somonauk, 111., '83-84: p, Ferguson, Mo.^ '84-87; rec, 
Pby. Osage, June 16, '87, fr. Pby. St. Louis; p. Clinton, '87-90; dism. July 5, '90, 
to Pby. Omaha; m. Eoline 0. Blazer. 

SAMUEL COLUMBUS (MARIOX) BATES, b. July 10, '62, Cloyerport, 
Ky.; s, Sam. T. Bates and Berilla Xoell ; stud. Park, '77-82; grad. Lane, '85, 
post grad. Princeton, '85-86; lie. Apr, 14, "85, Pby, Cincinnati; ord. Xoy. 3, "87, 
Pby. Kan. Cy,; sup. Washington, Mo., '86-87: Knob Xoster and Salem, '87-88; 
dism. July 3, '88, to Pby. Vincennes; Ph. D., Wooster, '94; m. Dec. 15, '86, Julia 
M. Curry, Monckport, ind. 

THOMAS HOWELL JOXES, b. Mar. 31, '39, Co. Cardigan, S. Wales; s. 
Eyan Jones and Eliz. Ho\yell; educ. Liverpool, Eng.; theol. priy. ; lie. '70, Pby. 
Cambria ; ord. June 9, '75, Caly, Meth, Syn, of Wise. ; p. Welsh Pbn. Chs., Water- 
town and Ixonia, Wis.; p. Pbn. chs. Xew Cambria and Beyier, Mo., '82-84; rec. 
Pby. Kan. Cy., Sep. 28, '87, fr. Pby. Long Creek, la. ; p. First Welsh Pbn. Ch. 
Kansas City, "87-89 ; carpenter, coach dept., K. C, F, S. & M. Ry. shops, K. C, 
Mo., '89ff.; m. Apr. 29. '65, in Liverpool. 

HORACE CLIXTOX KEELEY, b. Mar. 3, '59, Selin's Grove, Pa.; grad. 
Western Reserve, '84; Union, '87; lie. Apr. "87, Pby, X. Y. : ord. X^v. 16. '87, 
Pby. Kan. Cy. ; p, Osceola, '87-88, and sup. Brownington; dism. Dec. 28, '88, to 
Pby, Iowa; m. May 11, '87, Jennie E. Woodward. 

1838 

Sx\MUEL THOMPSOX M'CLURE, b. Sep. 9, "36, Vincennes, Ind. ; s. Dan. 
McClure and Esther Thompson ; grad. Hanover, '62 ; Western, '65 ; lie. '65, Pby. 
Craw^f ordsville ; ord. Aug. 30, '68, Pby. Xeosho; sup. Topeka, Kan., '65-66; 
Junction City. '66-68: Girard and Cherokee. '68-77: Carlisle. '77-78; Glenwood, 
Mo., "78-80: Allerton, la., '80-81 : "Milan, 111.. '81-82: Lyons, la., "82; rec. Pby. 



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chroivjological register. 



Kan. Cy., Apr. 11, "88, fr. Pby. Cedar Rapids; gen. agt. of the Mid-Continent; 
dism. Apr. 6, '93, to Pby. Topeka; A. M., Hanover; m. Dec. 17, 73, Miss A. M. 
Case, Girard, Kan. 

ARCHIBALD MACDOUGALL, b. Feb. 22, "24, Campbelltown, Scotland; s. 
Dugald Macdougall and Margaret Henderson; grad. Union C, '51; stud. Auburn 
'52-54; lie. June '53, Pby. Ithaca; ord. Feb. '54, Pby. Chenango; p. Sherburne, 
N. Y., '54-60; sup. Dryden, '60-67; Bloomington 2d, 111., "67-70; Grand Ridge 
and Polo; rec. Kan. Cy. Pby., Apr. 11, '88, fr. Pby. Ottawa; sup. Rich Hill, 
'87-88 ; dism. May 29, '90, to Pby. Chicago ; A. M., Madison Univ., '59 ; m. Sep. 
23, '49, Emily E. Walker, Havana, N. Y. 

DUNCAN ROSS CROCKETT, b. July 20, '43, Middle River, N. S.; s. John 
Crockett and Anna Ross; stud. Waynesburg, Pa.; grad. Danville, '76; tea. Can- 
ada, "63-71; carpenter, Boston, '71-72; lie. Apr. 9, '75, Pby. Transylvania; ord. 
Oct. 29, '76, Pby. Austin; p. Laurence, Tex., '76-78: p. Naugiwauk and Salt 
Springs, New Brunswick, 79-83; sup. Laclede, Mo., '83-84; Salem, Mo., '84-88; 
rec. Pby. K. C, Sep. 26, '88, fr. Pby. St. Louis; p. Greenwood, '88-91; sup Lee's 
Summit, '87; Creighton, '88-89; Centerview and Knob Noster, '90-91; dism. ad 
interim, '91; to Pby. Chickasaw; m. Mar. 10, '86, Ellen Robertson, Ardoice, 
Canada ; d. Nov. 3, '92, Greenwood, Mo. 

WILLIAM ]\L\RTYN BAIRD, b. June 16, '62, Clark Co., Ind.; s. John M. 
Baird and Nancy Paris; grad. Hanover, '85; McCormick, '88; lie. May '88, Pby. 
New Albany; ord. ^b.; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Sep. 26, '88, fr. Pby. New Albany; sup. 
Kansas City 2d, '88; Osceola and Brownington, '88-89; dism. Sep. 25, "89 to 
Pby. Pueblo; A. M., Hanover, '89; For. Miss'y, Korea, '90ff.; m. Nov. 18, '90, 
Annie Laurie Adams, Topeka, Kan. 

THOMAS F. BOYD, ord. Dec. 19, '57; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy. Sep. 26, '88, fr. 
Pby. Des Moines ; sup. Knob Noster and Salem ; dism. Sep. 24, '90. 

GEORGE PRICE HAYS, b. Feb. 2, '38, Canonsburg, Pa.; s. John Hays and 
Orpha Cornwell; grad. Jefferson, '57; stud. Western '58-60; lie. Apr. "59, Pby. 
Ohio; ord. Mar. 5, '61, Pby. Baltimore; p. Baltimore 2d, '61-68; financial agt. 
Wooster, '68-69; p. Allegheny 2d, '69-70; pres. Washington and Jefferson Coll., 
'70-81 ; also sup. Washington 2d, Pa., '70-81; p. Central ch., Denver, Col., '81-85; 
p. Cincinnati 2d, O., "85-88; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Dec. 28,,'88, fr. Pby. Cincin- 
nati; p. Kansas City 2d, '88-93; dism. Oct. 17, "94, to Pby. Pittsburgh; D. D., 
Lafayette, '71, LL. D., Hanover, '87; Moderator of Gen. Assembly, '84; m. Aug. 
1, '60, Eleanor S. Wherry; d. Sep. 6, '97, Washington, Pa. 



1889 

GEORGE PORTER WILSON, b. Sep. 9, '53, McClelantown, Pa.; grad. 
Washington and Jefferson, '77 ; Western, '80; lie. Apr. 23, '79, Pby. Washington; 
ord. Oct. 14, '80, Pby. Ebenezer; p. Lexington, 2d, Ky., '80-84; Lafayette Park 
eh., St. Louis, Mo., "84-89; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Apr. 10, '89, fr. Pby. St. Louis; 
p. Kansas City 1st, '89-90; dism. Apr. 8, '91, to Pby. Philadelphia Central; 
D. D., W. & J., '89. 

SHERROD WILLIAMS GRIFFIN, b. Green Co., Ky.; stud. Columbia Ky.; 
theol. priv. ; ord. Oct. '72, Pby. Neosho; sup. Montana, Kan., '72-80; Cherryvale, 
'80-86; Central ch., Kansas City, Kan.; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Apr. 11, '89, fr. Pby. 
Topeka ; w. c. ; dism. Mar. 3, '90, to Pby. Platte. 

WILLIAM GILMORE POLLOCK, b. Jan. 10, '49, Ohio Co., W. Va.; s. John 
N. Pollock and Maria Gilmore; grad. Washington and Jefferson, '78; Western, 
'81; tea. '82-84; lie. June 1, "80, Pby. Washington; sup. Wickes, Mont., '81; Ft. 
Concho, Tex., '81; Colton, Cal., '85-86; Monument, Col., '87; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy.. 
June 24, '89, fr. Pby. Kearney; sup. Kansas City 4th; dism. Sep. 16, '91, to Pby. 
Los. Angeles. 



MmiSTERS. 



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1890 

JOSEPH IVIiVYOU, b. Apr. 19, '29, Birmingham, Eng.; s. James Mayou and 
Jemima Stackhouse ; grad. Rutgers, '55; new Brunswick, '58; lie. June, '58, R. 
D. Classis of Schoharie; ord. ib.; Miss'y in Arcot Mission, S. India, "58-71 ; Home 
Miss'y, R. D. Ch., Somerset, Kan., '72-76; Presby. ch.. La Cygnc, Kan., '76-78; 
Garnet, '78-80; Highland, Kan., '80-85; Troy, '85-87; Marysville, '87-89; ree. 
Pby. Kan. Cy., Apr. 10, '90; fr. Pby. Highland; suf). Appleton City and Mont- 
rose, 89-91; Greenwood and Centerview, '92-93; dism. Nov. 20, '93 to Diocese of 
Kansas (Episcopal) ; A. M., Rutgers, '58; B. D., Theol. Coll. Topeka, "94; m. 
Aug. 10, '58, Margaret A. Schultz, Lamington, N. J. 

ARCHIBALD MAC LAREN, b. Mar. 5, '52, Lakeside, Ont. ; grad. Manitoba 
C, '81; stud. Queen's C, '81-82; Union T. Sem., '82-84; ord. July 16, '84, Pby. 
Brandon (Manitoba) ; Chater, Man., '84-85; Springfield, Man., '85-87; lecturer 
on Ch. Hist., Man. Univ., '85-87 ; Goodland, Kan., '87-88 ; ree. Kan. Cy. Pby., Apr. 
"90; sup. Osceola and Vista, '89-93; Nevada, '93-95; dism. Aug. 20, '95, to Pby. 
Union. 

WESTON F. SHIELDS, b. Sep. 9, '58, Ebenezer, Pa.; s. James G. Shields 
and Mary Ann Miller; Pa. >State Normal Sch., '85; Western, '90; teacher; lie. 
Apr. 10, '89. Pby. Kittanning; ord. Apr. 30, '90, ib.; sup. Litchfield and Ausley, 
;N'eb., '89; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Sep. 23, '90, fr. Pby. Kittanning; p. Sharon, 
'90-93, also sup. Drexel, '91-93; dism. Apr. 5, '93, to Pby. Kearney; went as 
Miss'y to Praa, Laos, Dec. '93; m. Oct. 12, "93, Lillian Hendrickson, Bates Co. 
Mo. 

GEORGE B. SPROULE, grad. Lane T. Sem. ; sup. Plainville, Kan., '86-90 ; 
rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Oct. 22, '90, fr. Pby. Osborne; sup. Creighton, '90-91; Apple- 
ton City, '92-93; Deepwater and Brownington, '93-97; Sharon, Drexel and 
Fairview, '98-1900; m. 1900, Drexel, Mo. 

EDWARD PAYSON DUNLAP, b. Jan. 13, '63, Monongahela, Pa.; gr^O. 
Wooster, '87; Princeton, '90; lie. June '90, Pby. Wooster; ord. Nov. 7, "90, Pby. 
Kan. Cy.; p. Linwood ch., Kansas City, '90-93; dism. Nov. 20, '03, to Pby. 
Kearney; m. '93, Miss Swan, Kansas City, Mo. 

WILLIAM MELANCHTHON POCOCK, b. Mar. 17, '50, Hayesville, a.; 
grad. Wooster, '74; Union, '77; ord. June 12, '77, Pby. Wooster; sup. El Dorado, 
Kan., '77-80; p. Waverly and Rock Creek, '80-90; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Dec. 9, "90, 
fr. Pby. Emporia ; p. Clinton, '90-95 ; invalid, '95-96 ; dism. Apr. 9, '97, to Pby. 
Marion; A. M., '77. 

JOSEPH ROSS STEVENSON, b. Mar. 1, '56, Ligonier, Pa.; s. Rev. Dr. 
Ross Stevenson and Martha A. Harbison ; grad. Washington and Jefferson, '86 ; 
McCormick, '89; stud. Univ. Berlin, '89-90, and summers of '94, '95, '96; lie. 
Apr. 7, '88, Pby. Chicago; ord. Dec. 31, '90, Pby. Kan. Cy.; p. Broadway ch., 
Sedalia, '90-94; prof. Ch. Hist., McCormick T. Sem., '94fr.; D. D., W. & J., '97; 
m. May 16, '99, Florence Day, Indianapolis. 

ROLLIN RUTHVEN MARQUIS, b. Dec. 28, '53, Murray, Ind. ; s. Robert 
C. Marquis and Martha Riddle; stud. HanoA^er C; grad. Wooster, '80; Western, 
'83; farmer, teacher, merchant; lie. Apr. 5, \82, Pby. Wooster; ord. June 12, '83, 
Pby. Cleveland; p. Northfield, 0., '83-86; inv., '86-88; sup. Sedan, Kan., '88-89; 
p. Osage City, '89-91; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Apr. 7, '91, fr. Pby. Emporia; p. Cen- 
tral ch., Sedalia, '91-97; dism. Apr. 10, '98, to Pby. Schuyler; A. M., Wooster, 
'83 ; m. May 8, '83, Clara J. McCormick, Fredericksburg, 0. ; m. 2d, Feb. 18, '96, 
Ida Irene Shumaker, Springfield, Mo. 

FRANK BATEMAN EVERITT, b. Mar. 8, '66, Stroudsburg, Pa.; grad. 
Princeton C, '86 ; Princeton T. Sem., "90 ; teacher ; ord. May 9, '90, Pby. Mon- 
mouth : rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Apr. 9, '91, fr. Pby. Monmouth; sup. Kansas City 
4th, '90-91; dism. Oct. 21, '91, to Pby. New Brunswick; A. M., Princeton, '89. 

WILLIAM EZRA VOSS, b. Dec. 20, '52, Springville, Ind. ; s. Lorenzo Dow 
Voss and Elvira Wilson; stud. Park, '75-81 ; Danville, '81-83; grad. McCormick, 



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'84; lie. Apr. 8, '84, Pby. Platte; ord. Oct. 18, '89, Pby. Aberdeen; sup. 
Savannah, Mo., 1 yr. ; H. M. in South Dakota, 5 yrs, : rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Apr. 
'91, fr. Pby. Aberdeen; sup. El Dorado Springs and Montrose, "91-94; dism. Apr. 
4, "94, to Pby. Cimarron; m. Dec. 18, '85, Alice H. Haynes, Parkville, Mo. 

JOHN BOYNTON HILL, b. Nov. 3, '60, St. Louis, Mo. ; s. Rev. Dr. Timothy 
Hill and Frances A. Hall; grad. Knox, '81; prof. Greek, Park Coll., '81-84, also 
'96; grad. Union T. Sem., '87, alternate fellow; lie. Pby. Osage, June 8, '86; ord. 
Pby. Topeka, Julv 5. "89; orgz"d and sup. Westminster Pbn. eh., Topeka, Kan., 
'89-90 ;rec. Pby. K. C, Apr. 8, '^1, fr. Pbv. Topeka; p. Butler, '90-94; sup. Kan- 
sas City, '95ff.; A. M., Knox, "84; Perm. Clerk, Synod of Mo., '94ff.; compiler of 
this History. 

HORACE COFFIN STANTON, b. Apr. 1, '49, Wolfborough, N. H.; s. Prof. 
Benj. Stanton and Catharine P. Coffin; grad. L^nion C, '67, 1st honor; Prince- 
ton '73, won Hebrew Prize; teacher, lawyer; lie. Pby. New Brunswick; ord. 
June 9, '74. Pbv. Albanv: sup. Batchellerville, N. Y., '73-76; Northville, '74-75; 
p. Albany 3d, N. Y^, '77-87; sup. Central ch., Denver, Cbl., '88-89; Bethanv eh., 
Albany, N. Y., '89-90; Kansas City 2d, Mo., '90; ree. Pby. Kan. Cy., June 16, "91, 
fr. Pby. Albanv: p. Kansas Citv'lst, "91-99; inv. '991?.; Ph. D., Boston Univ., 
'84, D. D., Bates Coll., '97. 

HENRY MARTYN CAMPBELL, b. May 6, '61, Congress, 0.; grad. Woos- 
ter, '87; stud. Western, '87-88, Princeton, '88-90; lie. '90, Pby. Wooster ; ord. 
Sep. 13, "90, Pbv. Ozark; sup. Monett, Mo., '90-91; ree. Pbv. Kan. Cv., Sep. 16, 
'91, fr. Pby. Ozark; p. Kansas City 4th, '91-93; dism. Nov. 20 "93, to Pby. St. 
Louis. 

WILLIAM H. HYATT, b. Staffordshire, Eng.; stud. Victoria Univ., Eng. 
theol. priv. ; ord. '71, Cong. Council, Manchester, Eng.; sup. Cong, chs.. Cross 
Lane, Salford and Circular Road, Eng. ; Douglas, Isle of Man ; Uppermill, Eng. ; 
12th Presb. ch., Indianapolis, Ind. ; Whiteland, Ind. ; Tola, Kan. ; rec. Pby. Kan. 
Cy., Oct. 21, '91, fr. Pby. Neosho; sup. Kansas City 3d, '91-93 ; dism. Oct. 18, '93, 
to Pby. Rock River. 

ANDREW ADAM BOYD, b. June 13, '60, Ireland; grad. Queen's Coll., '87; 
stud. Belfast T. Sem. and Princeton; ord. Dec. 17, '91, Pbv. Kan. Cy. : sup. Knob 
Noster and Salem, '91-94, '96-98; p. Sedalia Central, ",99ff'. 

1892 

EGUN W^ACHTER, b. Prussia; grad. Western, '84; lie. Apr. 24, '83, Pby. 
Pittsburgh; ord. May 11, '84, ib.. Foreign Miss'y, Siam, '84-91; rec. Pby. Kan. 
Cy., Apr. 5, '92, f r. Pby. Siam ; stud. K. C. Coll. Phys. & Surg., grad. M. D. ; 
dism. Sep. 26, '94, to Pby. Siam. 

WILLIAM T. WARDLE, b. Jan. 10, '59, Wigan, Lancashire, Eng. ; s. Jos. 
Wardle and Eliz. Taylor ; grad. Wooster, '87 ; Lane, '90 ; boxmaker, machinist, 
clerk; lie. Apr. 9, ■,89", Pbv. Cincinnati; ord. May 8, '90, Pby. Maron; p. Milford 
Center, 0., '90-92; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Apr. 22, '02, fr. Pby. Marion; p. Holden, 
'92-95; dism. May 20, '95, to Pby. Portland; m. July 22^ '91, Luvenia M. Gil- 
bert, Cincinnati, O. 

FREDERIC WILLIAM HINITT, b. Nov. 5, '66, Kidderminster, Eng.; s. 
John Hinitt and Selina Williams; grad. Westminster, '89; MeCormiek, '92; 
draughtsman, '80-86; lie. June 8, '91, Pby. Upper Mo.; ord. Apr. 18, '92, Pby. 
Kan. Cy.; p. Warrensburg, '92-95; dism. Mar. 26. "95, to Pby. Iowa; B. S., 
Westm'r, '89; A. B., '90, A. M., '91, ib.; Ph. D., Wooster, '96; m. June 26, '92, 
Elfie H. Humphrey, Fulton, Mo. 

1893 

WILLIAM FREEMAN MATTHEWS, b. Oct. 31, '49, Bethel, Vt. ; grad. 
Univ. Michigan, '70; Union, '74; Univ. Berlin, '78-79; ord. Dec. 20, '74; chap. 
mis"y N. Y. City, '74-77; sup. Reading, Mich., '77-78; Manchester, '78-79; Au- 



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burn, Ind., '81-82; Blu^Tton, \S2-85 ; Pipestone and ^Voodstock, Minn., '86; 
Parkville, Mo., '87 ; Cottonwood Falls, Kan., '89-90 ; Buiiingame and Union, 
'91; ree. Pby. Kan. Cy., Apr. 5, '93, fr. Pby. Emporia; agt. Soc. for Sup. Vice; 
demitted ministry, Apr. 11, 1900. 

THOMAS JEFFERSON MAY, b. Feb. G, '45, Scipio, Ind.; s. Jon. B. May 
and Eliz. Lewellyn; grad. Hanover, '74; Union, '77: U. S. Army, 'G1-G4; tea. 
'G7-70; lie. Pby. N. Y., May "77; ord. Pby. N. Y., May 15, '77; sup. Wilson 
Mission, N. Y. City, '77-83; Vancouver, Wash., '83-85; Wichita, Kan., '85-89; 
Central ch., Helena, Mont., '89-92; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Apr. 5, '93, fr. Pby. Mon- 
tana; Pastor-at-Large, K. C. Pby., '92-95; sup. Fairvie^y and Lone Oak, '95-9G; 
Centerview and Creighton, '9G-97 ; m. Nov. 1, '82, Emily Rebecca Holies, Pea- 
body, Kan. 

WILLIAM SICKELS, b. Sep. 12, 'G7, Little Osage, Mo.; s. Isaac Coe 
Sickels and May Wood McNeil ; stud. Sedalia Univ., '84-87 ; Westminster C, 
grad. '90; McCormick, '93; lie. Apr. 4, '92, Pby. Chicago; ord. June 6, '93, Pby. 
Kan. Cy.; sup. Sharon and Drexel, '93-97; dism. Apr. 12, '98, to Pby. Neosho; 
A. M. Westminster, '93. 

JAMES ALEXANDER PORTER M'GAW, b. Feb. 4, '35, Fairhaven, 0. ; s. 
John and Edna; grad. Miami L^n., '56; Assoc. Ref. T. Sem., Oxford, O., '58; 
teacher; lie. Apr. '57, 1st Assoc. Ref. Pbv. Ohio; ord. Aug, 8. '58, 2d Assoc. Ref. 
Pby. Illinois : p. U. P. Ch., So. Henderson, 111.. '58-67 ; prof. Eng. Lit., Mom- 
mouth Coll., '67-68: p. 1st Presb. eh., Urbana, 0.. '68-80; Central ch.. Rock 
leland, "80-81; 1st eh., Toledo, 0., '81-93; ree. Pby. Kan. Cy., Sep. 27, '93, fr. 
Pby. Maumee; p. Linwood ch., Kansas City, '93-97; dism. Sep. 29, '97; A. M., 
Miami, '59; D. D., Monmouth, '71; m. Sep. 21, '58, Rebecca J. Irwin, Oxford, O. ,• 
m. 2d, Jan. 3, '60, Mary A. Scott, Collinsville, 0. 



1894 

PAUL HEILIGMANN, b. Cincinnati, 0. ; stud. Union Bibl. Sem. and Lane ; 
lie. '89, Pby. Des Moines; ord. Nov. 3, '91, Pby. Whitewater; sup. Aurora, Ind., 
'91-92; rec! Pby. Kan. Cy., Apr. 3, '94, Pby. Whitewater; sup. Kansas City 3d; 
dism. Oct. 17, '94, to Pby. Maumee. 

JOHN WILLIAM VAN E]\IAN, b. Aug. 21, '46, Canonsburg, Pa.; grad. 
Washington and Jefferson, '71; Western, 74; lie. Apr. 10, '73; ord. June 2, '74, 
Mankato: sup. Magdalia and Lake Crystal, Minn., '73-75; Bloomington, Minn., 
'75-76; Atalissa and Cedar Valley, la., '76-77; Williams, '77-81; Stella and 
Prospect, Neb., '82-83: Covert Kill and Shiloh, Kan., '84; ree. Pby. Kan. Cy., 
Apr. 14, '94, fr. Pby. Earned; sup. El Dorado Springs and Montrose, '93-94; inv., 
Perth Amboy Ministers' Home, N. J. ; m. Apr. 29, '74, Miss L. J. Morton. 

JACOB BAUGHMAN WELTY, b. Apr. 8, '46, W. Newton, Pa.; s. Geo. 
Welty and Eliz. Baughman; stud. Mt. Pleasant C, and Mereersberg, Pa.; grad. 
Lancaster T. Sem., -72; lie. summer, '72, Ger. Ref. Classis of Westmoreland; 
ord. fall, '72, ib. ; sup. Pbn. ch., Missouri Valley and Logan, la., '76-80; Afton 
and Villisca, '80-81; p. Creston, '81-86; sup Pleasanton, Kan., '86-88; Moberly, 
Mo., '88-92; Pastor-at-Large, Palmyra Pby., '92-94; rec. Pbv. Kan. Cy., May S, 
'94, fr. Pbv. Palmyra: p. Kansas City 4th, '94-96; dism. July 6, '96, to Pby. 
Ozark; m.Nov. 14, '67, Mary W. Slater, Connellsville, Pa. 

EDMUND STANLEY BROWNLEE, b. Mar. 31, '57, Washington, Pa.; 
grad. Washington and Jefferson, '86; Western, '89; news editor, American 
Press Assn.; lie. Apr. 11, "88, Pby. Washington; ord. Apr. 8, 90, Pby. W. Va.; 
sup. Ravenswood, W. Va., '89-90; Mt. Vernon, la., '91-94; ree. Pby. Kan. Cy., 
May 8. '94, fr. Pby. Cedar Rapids; sup. Appleton City, '93-98: dism. Apr. 12, 
'98, to Pby. Topeka ; m. Feb. 6, '90, Lucy P. Allen. 

WILLIAM P. NELSON, no Coll. or Sem. training ; had once been a Bap- 
tist minister in 111., but demitted the ministry and joined a Presby. ch. in Union, 
Mo.: dism. as a private member to the eh. of Tipton, which he sup. about 18 



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months up to his Presb. ordination ; lie. Pby. Kan. Cy., Apr. 5, '94 ; ord. ib. May 
8, '94 ; sup. Kansas City 3d, '94; dism. Mar. '95, to Pby. Iowa. 

WALTER HAYS, b. Wooster, 0., s. Rev. Dr. Geo. P. Hays and Eleanor S. 
Wherry; grad. Washington and Jefferson, '90; McCormick, '94; lie. Apr. 5, '93, 
Pby. Kan. Cy.; ord. May 8, '94, ib.; dism. May 8, '94, to Pby. Butte; A. M., W. 
& J. '97. 

GEORGE H. WILLIAMSON, b. July 11, '39, Bedford, N. Y.; educ. Troy 
Univ. and Burlington Sem.; ord. Sep. 5, '69, by Bp. G. F. Pierce, M. E. Ch. 
South; rec. Pby. Ozark, Sep. 29, '81, fr. M. E. eh. South; sup. 
Pbn. chs., Joplin, Mo.; Greenfield and Ozark Prairie; MeCausland 
Ave., St. Louis; Kirksville; Mt. Vernon; Ash Grove; Fairplay; Lockwood; 
Golden City; White Oak; Monett; Green Citv; Hamilton; ree. Sep. 25, '94, fr. 
Pby. Ozark; p. Jefferson City, '94-95; dism. Oet. 16, '95, to Pby. Ozark. 

JAMES SAMIN CARUTHERS, b. June 22, '39, Lawrence Co., Pa. ; grad. 
Vermillion Inst., '70; Western, "73; lie. Apr. 25, '72, Pby. Wooster; ord. Apr. 
20, '76, Pby. Peoria; p. French Grove, 111., '73-78; sup. Lyons, Kan.; Ellsworth, 
Perry, Hope; Edwardsville, 111.; Raymond; Fairmount, Neb.; Idaho Springs, 
Col.; Silver Cliff; Bloomfield, la.; Adar; Casey; Pacific, Mo.; ree. Pby. Kan. 
Cy., Sep. 26, '94, fr. Pby. Alton; sup. Hill Mem. ch., Kansas City, '94-96; dism. 
Apr. 13, '97, to Pby. Topeka; m. Aug. 20, '63, Mary Caroline Phillips, New 
Castle, Pa. ; m. 2d, Mary E. Johnson, Hayesville, 0. ; m. 3d, Mar. 30, '82, Laura 
A. Jeffers, Greenwood, Mo. 

LUTHER ]\L4RTIN BELDEN, b. Nov. 14, '37, Sandisfield, Mass.; s. Aus- 
tin Belden and Charlotte Irene Hawley; grad. Washington, '61; Western, '64; 
lie. Apr. 29, '63, Pby. Redstone; ord. Dec. 12, "64, Pby. Erie; p. Sturgeonville, 
Pa., '64-70; Chatsworth, 111., '71-75; tea. Mt. Pleasant, la., '75-76; sup. Center- 
ville, '77-81; Elk Rapids, '81-84; p. Raisin, Mich., '85-91; Walla Walla, Wash., 
'91-94; ree. Pby. Kan. Cy., Mar. 26, '95, fr. Pby. Walla Walla; p. Kansas City 
3d, '94-99; dism. Oct. 25, '99, to Pby. Chicago; A. M., Washington, '64; m. Oct. 
12, '64, Margaret A. Knight, NeAV Castle, 0. 

1895 

WESLEY FRANK PRICE, b. Nov. 9, '54, Lumberton, N. C; s. Wesley 
Price and Mary Page; grad. Harvard, '80; stud. Princeton, '80-81, Andover, 
'81-83; lie. Apr. '82, Cong. Assn. Woburn, Mass.; ord. Oct. 22, '85, Cong. Council, 
N. Y. City ; sup. 2d Cong, ch., Keene, N. H., '83-85 ; Madison Ave., Cong, ch., N. 
Y. City, '85-87; p. 1st Presb. eh., Monte Vista, Col., '91-94; ree. Pby. Kan. Cy., 
Apr. 10, '95, fr. Pby. Pueblo; p. Broadway ch., Sedalia, '95-96; dism Sep. 23, 
'96, to Pby. Fargo; m. Apr. 28, "92, Monte Viste, Col. 

EDWARD WARREN CLIPPINGER, b. Dee. 4, '67, Lansing, Mich.;- s. 
Humphrey Clippinger and Mary A. Mead ; grad. Drury, '92 ; McCormick, '95 ; 
lie. Apr. 17, '95, Pby. Ozark; ord. same date; sup. Chatsworth, 111., '94-95; rec. 
Pby. Kan. Cy., May 7, '95, fr. Pby. Ozark; p. Warrensburg, '95-99; p. Broad- 
way eh., Sedalia, '99ff. ; m. July 5, "94, Haddie Burger, Bloomington, Ind. 

GEORGE FREDERIC AYRES, b. May 17, '64, Marion Co., Mo.; s. Eugene 
W. Ayres and Kate J. Hays; grad. Westminster, '87; McCormick, '91, Smith 
fellow ; stud. Univs. Leipzig and Halle ; prof. Latin, Daniel Baker Coll., '92-93 ; 
prof. Math., Washington, Coll., Tenn., '93-95; lie. Mar. '89, Pby. Palmyra 
(U. S.); ord. Apr. '93, Pby. Brazos (U. S.) ; sup. Troy, Mo.; St. Charles; 
Houston, Tex. ; Johnson City and Jonesboro, Tenn. ; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Sep. 25, 
'95, fr. Pby. Holston; pres. K. C. Ladies' Coll. at Independence, '95-98; dism.' 
Apr. 12, '99, to Pby. St. Louis; A. M., Westminster; Ph. D., Wetsminster, "97; 
m. June 21, '93, Charlia L. Heron, Washington, D. C. 

RICHARD COOPER BAILEY, b. Wellington, Durham, Eng.; s. John 
Bailey and Eliz. Brass; educ. Eng.; lie. Oct. 11, '93, Pby. Nebraska City; ord. 
May 3, '94, ib.; sup. in Lancashire and Yorkshire, Eng., '87ff ; p. Humboldt, Neb. 



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'93-95; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Nov. 2, '95, fr. Pby. Nebraska City; p. Holden, 
'95-99 : dism. May 23, '99, to Pby. Utah; m. June 3, '94, Sheffield, Eng. 

HERMON DUTILH JENKINS, b. Jan. 14, '42, Columbus, 0.; s. Rev. War- 
ren Jenkins and Marion Dutilh; grad. Hamilton, '64; stud. Auburn, '64-65; 
Union, '65-67; abroad, '67-68; lie. Dec. '66, Pby. New York; ord. Sep. 21, '68, 
Pby. Chicago; p. Central ch., Joliet, 111., '68-72; p. 1st ch., Freeport, 111., '73-89; 
p. Sioux City, la., '89-95; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy. Nov. 2, '95, fr. Pby. Sioux City; p. 
Kansas City 2d, '95-1900; dism. Nov. 29, 1900, to Pby. Chicago; D. D., Beloit, 
'81 ; m. Oct. 28, '68, Harriet Newell Burrill, Ithaca, N. Y. 

1896 

HENRY HUBERT SHAWHAN, b. Dec. 13, '66, Sigourney, la.; s. Jos. 
Henry Shawhan and Mary A. Jackeon; stud. Kan. St. Univ., '83-84; grad. Han- 
over, '90; stud. Princeton, '91-93; lie. May '91, Pby. Choctaw; ord. May '93, Pby. 
Oklahoma; sup. Ardmore, I. T., '93-94; Durango, Col., '95; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., 
Apr. 14, '96, fr. Pby. Pueblo; City Mission work, Kansas City; dism. Sep. 29, 
'98, to Pby. Puget Sound; m. Nov. 24, '93, Marie Park, Corinth, Miss. 

HAMILTON ANDREW HYMES, b. Apr. 19, '63, Darlington, S. C; s. 
Hyam and Eliz. Caroline ; grad. Univ. S. C, A. B., '86, LL. B., '88 ; stud. Union 
T. Sem., Va., '89-91; Princeton, '91-92; lawyer, Dallas, Tex., '88-89; lie. May, 
'92, Pby. Memphis; ord. July '92, ib.; p. Idlewild ch., Memphis, Tenn., '91-94; 
Webster Groves, Mo., '94-96; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Apr. 15, '96, fr. Pby. St. Louis; 
p. Clinton, '96-98; dism. Dec. 1, '98, to Pby. New Albany; A. M., 111. Wesleyan 
Un., '97 ; m. Oct. 25, '94, Mrs. Bessie MacGowari McDowell. 

JOHN FENTON HENDY, b. Aug. 23, '37, Co. Wicklow, Ireland; grad. Cen- 
ter, '62; stud. Princeton, '62-64; Danville, '.65; lie. Apr. '64; ord. Nov. 20, '64, 
Pby. Ebenezer ; p. Covington, Ky., '64-65 ; Crittenden and Lebanon, Ky,, '65-68 ; 
Vincennes, Ind., '69-72; Owensboro, Ky., '73-81; Erqporia, Kan., '81-84; pres. 
Emporia Coll., '83-93; pres. Oswego Fern. Coll., '93-95; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Apr. 
14, '96, fr. Pby. Neosho; p. Jelferson City, '96ff.; D. D., Center, '83. 

PIERRE PHILIPPE BRIOL, b. Oct. 12, '52, Villy, Vaud. Switzerland; s. 
Alexandere Briol and Rose Esther Borloz; stud. Inst. Evangelique, Glay, 
France; McGill Univ., Montreal; San Francisco T. Sem., '87; lie. Apr. '85, Pby. 
Chicago; ord. Mav 1, '87, Pby. San Francisco; sup. San Francisco French; in 
Red River Pby., '87-88 ; Gary, S. D., and Stations, '88-89 ; in Cong. Ch., '89-93 ; 
in Solomon Pby. ; teacher of Langs., Carthage, Mo., '93-96 ; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., 
June 5, '96, fr. Pby. Solomon; teacher; m. June 29, '88, Green Bay, Wis. 

WILLIAM SEMPLE, b. Donaghadee, Ireland; stud. Newtonards National 
School, Ireland; theol. course under W. Wis. M. E. Conf.; ord. '75, W. Wis. 
M. E. Conf.; p. M. E. Chs. of Monfort, Wis., '71-72; Dane, '73-75; Monticello, 
'75-77; teacher and farmer, '77-90; p. Presb. ch.. Union Twp., la.; 90-95;* rec. 
Pby. Kan. Cy., June 5, '96, f r. Pby. Sioux City ; sup. El. Dorado Springs, '96-99 ; 
dism. Oct. 24, 1900, to St. Louis Conf., M. E. Ch. 

JACOB TWYMAN BOYER, b. Feb. 6, '66, Campbellsburgh, Ky.; grad. 
Center, '90; stud. Danville, '90-92; grad. Princeton, '94; lie. June 12, '94, Pby. 
Louisville; ord. June 25, '94, ib.; sup. Cowgill, Polo and Dawn, Mo., '94-95; 
rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., June 5, '96, fr. Pby. Platte; p. Osceola, 1896-1900, also s. s. 
at Vista; p. Holden, 1900ff.; m. 

THOMAS MUNNELLE CORNELISON, b. Oct. 9, '70, Mt. Sterling, Ky. ; s. 
John J. Cornelison and Celestine Munnelle; grad. Center, '93; McCorniick, '96; 
lie. May 12, '96, Pby. Ebenezer ; ord. June 1 8, '96, Pby. Kan. Cy. ; p. Nevada, '96- 
98; dism. Sep. 28, '98, to Pby. Ebenezer; m. Nov. 11, '96 Mary Keith Green, 
Danville. 

EDWARD WRIGHT M'CLUSKY, b. Oct. 6, '64, Somerville, O.; s. Rev. J. 
W. McClusky and Eliz. Rankin; grad. Wooster, McCormick, '92; printer; lie. 
Apr. '91, Pby. Ft. Wayne; ord. Apr. '92, Pby. Iowa; p. Hope ch., Burlington, la.. 



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'92-94 : Geneseo, 111., '94-96 ; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Sep. 23, '90, fr. Pby. Rock River ; 
p. Hill Mem. cli., Kansas City, '96-98, also sup. K. C. 4th, '98 ; p. Tipton, '9Sff ., 
also sup. High Point; m. Jan. 17, '93, Sarah Irwin, St. Charles, Mo. 

WILLIAM WEATHERSTONE, b. '47, Lady Flat, Berwickshire, Scotland; 
a. Daniel Cockburn and Alice Weather stone, adopted by grandparents and took 
their name: grad. Univ. Edinburcfh, '76; Theol. Coll. Eng. Presb. Ch., '79; lie. 
'79, Pby. London; ord. '85, Pby. Lachlan, N. S. Wales; p. Grenfell, N. S. W. 
'85-87; Arlington, Scotland, '87-91; Sterling, Kan., '91; Jackson, Minn., '92-94;. 
rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Oct. 21, '96, fr. Pby. Mankato; sup. Kansas City 4th, '96-97 ; 
dism. : m. '70, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Eng. 

IVIARCUS EDWIN KROTZER, b. June 22, '67, Rimersburg, Pa.; s. Sam. 
Krotzer and Levina Bartholomew ; stud. Kan. St. Agric. Coll. ; grad. Park, '90 ; 
stud. Lane, '90-91; grad. McCormick, '93; lie. Apr. 13, '92, Pby. Topeka; ord. 
June 13, '93, Pby. Ft. Dodge; sup. Kingston, Mirabile and Cowgill, Mo., '90; 
S. S. Miss y, Pby. Ozark, '91 ; sup, Oelwein, la., '92; p. Manila and Manning, la., 
'93-94; sup. Delmar, la., '94-95; Craig, Mo., '95-96; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Oct. 21, 
'96, fr. Pby. Platte; p. Raymore, '96-98; dism. Dec. 22, '98, to Pby. Freeport; 
A. M., Park, '95; m. May 11, '93, Nona Spurling, Murdoch, 0.; m. 2d, Jan. 16, 
'96, Emma Hartlieb, Cincinnati, 0. 

LOUIS PERKINS CAIN, b. Danville, 111.; grad. Wabash, '90.; McCormick, 
'94; he. Pby. Bloomington, "93; ord. '94, ib. ; Sheldon, 111., '92-96; rec. Pby. Kan. 
Cy., Oct. 22, '96, fr Pby. Bloomington; p. Broadway ch., Sedalia, '96-99; dism. 
July 3, '99, to Pby. Chicago. 



1897 

W. R. EDWARDS, rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Apr. 13, '97, fr. Pby. Puget Sound; 
studied medicine in K. C. ; dism. June 8, '99 to Pby. Portland. 

JOHN MARTIN DINSMORE, b. May 25, '21, Rich Hill, Pa.; s. Moses 
Dinsmore and Irene Braddock; stud. Washington; Western, '45-47; one yr. 
priv. under Dr. John McChesney; lie. Apr. 19, '48, Pby. Washington; ord. Apr. 
24, '50, Pby. Steubenville ; itinerant Miss'y, W. Va., '48; sup. Cumberland and 
Big Spring, 0., '49-50; p. Utica, '50-51; Mt. Pleasant, '55-58; Bladensburg, 
'58-61; itinerant miss'y in la. and in Mo.; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Apr. 13, '97, fr. 
Pby. Ozark; H. R.; m. Aug. 19, '47, Martha Jane Guy, W. Alexander, Pa. 

ALFRED EMMANUEL VANORDEN, b. Aug. 31, '73, Sao Paulo, Brazil; s. 
Rev. Emmanuel Vanorden and Bertha Doebely; grad. Ecole Preparatoire de 
Geneve, Switzerland, '92 ; Ecole de Theologie, ib., '96 ; post grad. McCormick, 
•'96-97; lie. by Free Evang. Ch., Switzerland; ord. Oct. 8, '97, Pby. Kan. Cy.; 
supt Centerview and High Point, '97-98; Appleton City, '98-1900; dism. Oct. 24, 
1900, to Pby. Neosho; B. D., Geneva, '96; m. '98, Knob Noster, Mo. 

IRWIN POUNDS M'CURDY, b. Mar. 26, '56, Livermore, Pa.; s. Alex. Jack- 
son McCurdy and Sarah Pounds; grad. Pa. St. Normal Sch., '76, Lafayette C, 
'80; post grad. Princeton, Johns Hopkins, Lafayette, etc.; stud, theol. 2 yrs. 
priv.; Princeton, '82; studied law; lie. '81, Pby. Kattanning; ord. July 8, '81, 
Pby. Baltimore; p. and prof., Frederick, Md., '81-84; p. Southwestern ch., Phila- 
delphia, '84-95, then honorary Pastor for life; ed. Observer, '85-87, Amend- 
ment, '89; financial Sec'y, Lafayette C, '91-92; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Oct. 18, '97, 
fr. Pby. Philadelphia; p. Kansas City 5th, '97-99; D. D., Litt. D., L. D., Sc. D., 
L. H. D., H. L. D, Philol. D., etc., etc.; m. Nov. 29, '77, Rachel Long Ewing, 
Irwin, Pa. 

PAUL BURRILL JENKINS, b. Aug. 25, '72, Joliet, 111.; Rev. Dr. H. D. 
Jenkins and Harriet N. Burrill; grad. Princeton Univ., '94; Princeton T. Sem., 
'97; lie. June 9, "96, Pby. Kan. Cy.; ord. Oct. 21, '97, ib.; P. Linwood ch., Kan- 
sas City, '97flf.; m. Nov. 23, '97, Gertrude Halbert, Kansas City, Mo. 



MINISTERS. 



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1898 

STANLEY DAY JEWELL, b. Oct. 27, '53, Wellsburg, N. Y.; s. Dr. James 
Jewell and Almira Day; grad. Union, 75; Princeton, 78; lie. Pby. Clieming, 
Feb. 5, 78; ord. May 4, 78, ib.; p. Big. Flats, K Y., 78-90; sup. Rome, N. Y., 
'90-91; p. Coffeyville, Kan., '91-97; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Apr. 12, '98, fr. Pby. 
Neosho; p. Butler, ■97ff.; m. Sep. 1, '86, Belle Porter, Wellington, Kan. 

T^LIRSHALL B. W. GRANGER, b. Aug. 25, '56, Bladensburg, Md. ; s. Tlios. 
Granger and Millie C. Galer; grad. Center, '78; stud. McCormick, '85-86; grad. 
Danville, '88; lie. May '87, Pby. Transylvania; ord. Oct. '88, Pby. St. Louis; p. 
Fruitland, Mo., '88; sup. Jackson, Mo., '88-91; Aux Vasse, "92; Caledonia, '95; 
svn'l evang"t, '96 ; princ. Presb'l High School, Bethel Springs, Tenn., '96-97 ; rec. 
Pby. Kan. Cy., Apr. 12, '98, fr. Pby. Western District (U. S.) ; sup.. Warsaw 
and Sunnyside; A. M., Center, '81; m. '90, Juliette G. Welling, Jackson, Mo. 

JAMES DARRAH CATLIN, b. Apr. 5, '72, Hannibal, Mo.; s. Chas. Wm. 
Catlin and R. E. Ferguson ; grad. Westminster, '94 ; McCormick, '97 ; lie. May 
31, '97, Pby. St. Louis; ord. Oct. 5, '97, Pby. Choctaw: p. Atoka and Lehigh, 
I. T., '97-98; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Apr. 13, '98, fr. Pby. Choctaw; p. Central ch., 
Sedalia, '98-99; dism. July 3, '99, to Pby. Choctaw; m. Jan. 5, '98, Claudia 
Standley, Atoka, 1. T. 

1899 

GEORGE PETRIE BEARD, b. June 3, '34, Orange, Vt.; s. Kendall Beard 
and Roxinda Richardson; grad. Univ. Vt., '60; theol. priv. under pres and profs, 
of Univ. Vt. ; teacher in Mo., Pa., and Vt. ; lie. '64, by a Cong. Council in Vt. ; 
ord. Dec. '65, Cong. Council, Chillicothe, Mo.; sup. Cong, ch., Chillicothe, Mo., 
'65-66; orgz'd Normal School at Warrensburg, Mo., '71, and taught there, '66-72; 
sup. Presb. chs. in Pa., '72-87^ p. Blair, Neb., '91-94; Whitewood, S. D., '94-98; 
rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Apr. 12, '99, fr. Pbv Black Hills; disra. Aug. 24, 1900, to 
Pby. Redstone; A. M., Unir. X*t.; m. Dec.''6, '61, Randolph, Vt. 

W^ILLLIM FREDERIC VAN DER LIPPE, b. May 2, '69, St. Louis, Mo. ; 
s. Rev. Dr. Adalbert Van Der Lippe and Matilda Kiesel; grad. Westminster, '90 ; 
McCormick, '93; lie. Apr. '92, Pby. St. Louis; ord. July '93, Pby. Ozark: p. 
Springfield 2d, Mo., '93-94 ; Faith Chapel, St. Louis, '94-98 ; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., 
Apr. 12, '99, fr. Pby. St. Louis; p. Deepwater and Brownington; m. June 26, 
'95, Marie P. Bertram, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

JOHN STONESTREET VAN METER, b. Sep. 13, '45, Lexington, Ky.; s. 
Solomon van Meter, Eliz. M. Stonestreet; grad. Washington and Lee, Univ., '71 ; 
lawyer, Lexington, Ky., '71-78; stud. Danville T. Sem., '78-80; Princeton, '81; 
lie. 'Apr. 18, '80, Pby. W. Lexington; ord. Oct. 31, '81, ib.; p. Cynthiana, Ky., 
'81-85; Hot ^Springs, Ark., '85-93; Richmond, Mo., '93-98; Pres'l Evang't, Ark. 
'98-99; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Apr. 12, '99, fr. Pby. Arkansas (U. S.) ; p. Clinton. 
'99ff; D. D., Presb. Coll. Upper Uo.; m. Eliz. M. Yerkes, Danville, Ky. 

WILLIAM BROWN CHANCELLOR, b. Mar. 2, '70, Higginsville, Mo. ; s. 
James T. Chancellor and Marion H. Weedon; grad. Wooster, '96; McCormick, 
'99; lie. Apr. 13, '98, Pby. Kan. Cy.; ord. June 8, "99, ib. ; sup. Deepwater and 
Brownington, '93; Tipton, '95; Greenwood, '96; Milford Center, 0., '97; Avon, 
Ind., '98; (all the foregoing ch. in summer vacations) ; p. Rich Hill, '98ff. 

HARRY CLIFTEN WHITE, b. Nov. 28, '60, Washington, 0.; s. Josiah 
White and Hannah Ferrell; Muskingum C; grad. Western, '93; lie. Apr. '92, 
St. Clairsville; ord. Oct. 24, '93, Pby. Redstone; sup. Long Run and Mt. Vernon, 
Pa., '93-97 ; Cambridge, O., '98 ; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy. Sep. 26, '99, fr. Pby. Colum- 
bus.; sup. Centerview and Knob Noster, 1899-1901; Appleton City, 1901; m. 
July ,11, '88, Emma Cline, Creighton, 0. 

WILLIAM CARTER, b. May 22, '68, Pittington, Durham, Eng. ; s. Jos. Car- 
ter and Thomasina Whitford; grad. Parsons, '9i; McCormick, '94; lie. Apr. 10, 
'93, Pby. Ottawa; ord. same time; p. Sterling, 111., '94-97; Frankfort, Ind., '99; 



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rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Sep. 27, '99, fr. Pby. Ottawa; p. Kansas City 1st, 1899 ff.; 
A. M., Parsons, "94; Ph. D., Park, 1900; m. May 17, '93, Alice Kellogg, Des 
Moines, Iowa. 

JOHN N. POPE, rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Sep. 27, '99, fr. Pby. Cairo ; mission 
work in Kansas City; dism. Apr. 10, 1901, to Pby. Kiamichi; the only Negro 
minister ever a member of K. C. Pby. 

JOSEPH IVIARION EOSS, b. Nov. 4, '65, Champaign, 111.; Rev. Robt. G. 
Ross and Nannie A. Eastman; grad. Blackburn Univ., '86; McCorrnick, '89; lie. 
Apr. 4, '88, Pby. Alton; ord. May 21, '89, Pby. Springfield; sup. Steeleville and 
Blair, 111., '86; Moro, ,87; Moro and Upper Alton, '88; p. Farmington and 
Pleasant Plains, '89-90 ; Kirkwood, '92-99 ; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Oct. 26, '99, f r. 
Pby. Schuyler; p. Warrensburg, '99ff.; A. M., Blackburn, '89; Mod. Syn. 111., 
'99 ; m. Sep. 18, '90, Annie S. Nutting, Carlinville, 111. 



1900 

WELLINGTON E. LOUCKS, b. Oct. 12, '54, Peoria, 111.; s. Judge Well- 
ington Loucks and Rebecca A. Rodecker; grad. Wabash; theol. priv. ; lie. Apr. 
77^ Pby. Crawfordville : ord. Oct. 12, '77, ib. ; p. Darlington and Bethel, Ind., '77- 
78; sup. Crawfordsville, '78-80; Logansport, "80-87; North Broad Street, Phil- 
adelphia, Pa., '87-89; Camden 1st, N. J., '89-92; Wissahickon, '92-93; rec. Pby. 
Kan. Cy., Apr. 11, 1900, fr. Pby. Philadelphia; p. Kansas City 3d, '99ff.; A. M., 
Wabash, '92; m. Jan. 21, '75, Emma R. Johnson, Peoria, 111. 

HENRY LEWIS BROWN, b. Feb. 13, '30, Worcester, Mass.; s. Lewis Brown 
and Mary Knowlton; grad. Miami, '55; teacher, '47-64; grad. Lane T. Sem., '67; 
lie. Apr. '66, Pby. Oxford; ord. Sep. , '67, Pbv. Ft. Wayne; sup. Marion, Ind., 
'67-69; Peru, '69-70; Omro, Wis., '70-76 and "'83-87; Reedsburg, '76-79; Lodi, 
'79-83; Merrill, '87-94; Ottawa and Eagle, '94-97; Somers, '97-1900; rec. Pby. 
Kan. Cy., July 31, 1900, fr. Pby. Milwaukee; oc. sup.; dism. Apr. 10, 1901, to 
Pby. Topeka; m. Aug. 7, '67, Mary 0. Ballentine, Cincinnati, 0. 

JAMES LAPSLEY M'KEE, b. Jan. 14, ;64, Louisville, Ky.-; s. John Laps- 
ley McKee and Sarah Henry Speake; grad. Center, '83; Princeton, '86; post 
grad. McCormick, '90; lie. and ord. May '86, Pby. Transylvania; Miss'y among 
Mountaineers Of the South, '86-90; Richmond, Ky., '91-94; evang. & A. P. New 
Albany, Ind., '96-1900; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., May 11, '90, fr. Pby. New Albany; 
p. Kansas City 5th, 1900ff.; A, M., Center; m. Feb. 7, '93, Mary MacDonald 
Ritchie, Chicago, 111. 

ADDISON D. IVLIDEIRA, rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., May 11, 1900, fr. Pby. Lafav- 
ette; D. D. 

JAMES EDWARD iSTEVENSON, b. Nov. 24, '54, Belief ontaine, O; s. James 
Edgar Stevenson and Hannah Moore Hoover; no Coll. or Sem. educn; farmer 
until 1899 ; lie. Pby. Kan. Cy., Apr. 12, '99 ; ord. June 1, 1900, ib.; Bup. Raymore, 
'99ff.: m. May 16, '82, Sallie S. Williamson, Pleasant Hill, Mo. 

HENRY A. BROWN, b. Jan. 15, '65, Covington, Ky.; s. Herman Braun and 
Charlotte Droescher; grad. Center, '91; Danville, '94; salesman, '80-86; sup. 
Ebenezer Valley and Murphrysville, Ky., '94-97; Alexandria and Hope Chapel, 
S. D., '97-98; Firth, Neb., '98-1900; Staplehurst, 1900; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Sep. 
12, 1900, fr. Pby. Nebraska City; sup. Osceola and Vista, 1900-1901; Lowry 
City and Westfield, 1901 : m. June 4, '95, Edith L. Dietrich, Aberdeen, 0. 

JOHN S. DUNNING, grad. Princeton; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Sep. 26, 1900, fr. 
Pby. Louisiana (U. S.) : pres. K. C. Ladies^" C. at Independence. 

" THOIMAS ANDERSON CLAGETT, b. Aug. 21, '73, Richmond, Va.; s. Rev. 
W. H. Clagett and Jennie Anderson; grad. Southwestern Presb. Univ., '95; 
Princeton, 1900; lie. '96, Pby. Nashville; ord. Aug. '97, Pby. Arkansas; sup. 
Tallahasse, Fla.; rec. Pby. Kan. Cy., Sep. 26, 1900, fr. Pby. Florida (U. S.) ; sup. 
El Dorado Springs and Schell City, 1900-01. 



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1901 

GEORGE LEWIS ENGLER, b. Feb. 20, 70, Hoboken, N. J.; s. D. A. 
Engler and Anna M. Schenck; grad. Franklin, '97; Auburn, 1901; photo- 
grapher, 4 yrs., shipping elk., 5 yrs.; lie. Apr. '98, Pby. Rochester; ord. Oct. 
30, 1900, Pby. St. Lawrence; sup. Brownville, N. Y., 1900-01; rec. Pby. Kan. 
City, Apr. 10, 1901, fr. Pby. St. Lawrence; sup. Warsaw and Sunny Side, also 
Calvary and Edwards (in Southern connection) ; m. Sep. 4, 1900, Alice M. 
(dau. of Rev. Jas. H.) Day. 

CHARLES CALVIN M'GINLEY, b. July 12, '66, Maryville, Tenn.; s. Jos. 
A. McGinley and Fidelia McConnell; grad. Maryville, '91; Auburn, '94; lie. '92, 
Pby. Union; ord. '94, ib.; p. Ardmore, 1. T., '94-97; Muskogee, '97-1901; rec. 
Apr. 10, 1901, fr. Pby. Sequoyah; p. Independence 1st; m. '95, Jennie Mc- 
Culloch, Chicago, 111. 

CHARLES CLARK M'KINNEY, b. Mar. 14, '74, Highland, Kan.; s. J. E. 
McKinney and Lucy J. Clark; grad. Park, '98; stud. McCormiek, '98-1900; lie. 
May 11, 1900, Pby. Platte; ord. May 3, 1901, Pby. Kan. Cy.; sup. Malta Bend 
and Salt Springs; m. Sep. 26, 1900, Mary Best, Appleton City, Mo. 

ALBERT EDGAR WARDNER, Jr., b. Apr. 19, '76, St. Louis, Mo.; s. A. E. 
Wardner and Harriet E. Pixler; grad. Kansas State Univ., '98; McCormiek, 
1901; lie. Pby. Kan. Cy., May 11, 19.00; ord. May 21, 1901, ib.; sup. Vinland, 
Kan., '98; Alva, Ok., 1900; Chandler, Ok., 1901. 



MINISTERIAL AGE. 
Dates of Ordination so far as discovered. 

Before 1840. N. B. Dodge, about 1816; W. B. Montgomery, ; B. Pixley, 

; Robert Glenn, Apr. 19, 1819; E. Hollister, Sep. 26, 1820; A. 

Pomeroy, Sep. 29, 1825; H. Chamberlain, Oct. 16, 1825; H. P. Good- 
rich, May 3, 1827; W. P. Cochran, Mar. 23, 1828; J. L. Yantis, Oct. 

, 1830; Amasa Jones, Oct. 30, 1830; R. L. McAfee, ; W. L. 

Breekenridge, 1831; L. R. Morrison, Apr. 20, 1832; E. P. Noel, Sep. 

26, 1833; B. Ryland, ; J. V. A. Woods, 1836; A. G. Taylor, 1837; 

W. H. Rogers, May 16, 1838; John R. Agnew, Apr. 3, 1838; 1. W. K. 
Handy, Nov. 23, 1838; C. Sturdevant, ; W. M. Reed, . 

1840. H. H. Cambern, Apr. 7j John Montgomery, May 7; W. G. Bell, May 24; 

Jos. Piatt, Dec. 10. 

1841. G. A. M. Renshaw, Oct.; B. M. Hobson, Dec. 12. 
1812. J. T. Lapsley, May 6 ; W. M. Cheever, . 

1843. D. Coulter, July 5. 

1844. G. Hickman, Apr. 14; T. S. Reeve, Oct. 20; C. Bradshaw, . 

1845. J. B. Allen, Apr. 9; J. G. Brice, ( ?) . 

1846. R. S. Symington, Apr. 18; CD. Herbert, Apr. 26; J. S. Poage, May — ; 

H. A. Nelson, July 29; Timothy Hill, Oct. 22; J. W. Wallace, Nov. — . 

1847. S. G. Clark, May ; R. H. Allen, June 27. 

1848. T. A. Bracken, Oct. 15. 

1849. J. V. Barks, ; C. H. Heckman, ; W. C. Requa, ; W. H. 

Smith, . 

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1850. J. M. Dinsmore, Apr. 24; A. V. C. Schenck, June 28. 

1851. D. A. Wilson, Apr. 9; J. A. Whitaker, Oct. 9; Wm. H. Pawling, Apr. 27. 

1852. S. B. Bell, ; J. C. Thornton, May ; J. H. Baird, Mar. 4; H. M. 

Paynter, June ; I. W. Canfield, Oct. 17; J. O. Fackler, Nov. 27; 

W. R. Fulton, . 

1853. 

1854. A. McDougall, Peb. — ; James Young, Apr. 22. 

1855. J. W. Clark, June 22 ; L. I. Drake, Dec. — . 

1856. G. W. Harlan, Apr. — J. T. Leonard, Oct. 26. 

1857. Wm. McCaughey, Jan. 14; L. Dudley, Feb. 8; W. McCaughey, Jan. 14; 

R. Irwin, Apr. — ; J. H. Clark, Aug. 19; O. W. McMillan, Nov. 17: 
T. F. Boyd, Dec. 19. 

1858. J. Thompson, Jan. 14; J. M. Chaney, Apr. 4; H. C. Hovey, Apr. 10; J. 

Mayou, June — ; J. A. P. McGaw, Aug. — . 

1859. H. M. Shockley, ; Geo. K. Scott, Apr. — ; R. S. Reese, June 4; CD. 

Nott, Oct. 25 ; G. W. Goodale, Nov. 8 ; J. J. Cooke, Nov. 26. 

1860. S. W. Mitchell, Sep. 25; G. Miller, Nov. 4. 

1861. G. P. Hays, Mar. 5; J. C. Thornton, Apr. — ; C. L. Thompson, July 7; 

R. H. Jackson, Dec. 6 ; N. H. Smith, . 

1862. S. H. Weller, ; J. C. Taylor, Feb. 11; Hiram Hill, Apr. — ; Wm. 

Coleman. Fall. 

1863. J. B. Vawter, ; P. Read, Jan. 4; C. C. Kimball, Sep. 11; W. G. 

Thomas, Fall. 

1864. L. Railsback, ; J. W. Allen, ; C. H. Dunlap, Apr. 26; Eben 

Muse, May ; J. F. Hendy, Nov. 20; L. M. Belden, Dec. 12. 

1865. A. Carroll, ; W. M. Newton, ; J. H. Byers, Apr. 15; C. Fueller, 

Aug. 27; D. K. Steele, Sep. 15; G. P. Beard, Dec. . 

1866. C. V. Monfort, Apr. 8; J. Barbee, Oct. 9; S. M. Irwin, Nov. 25. 

1867. Henry L. Brown, Sept. ; F. Lippe, Sep. 16; E. M. Halbert, Oct. 13. 

1868. S. T. McClure, Aug. 30; B. F. Powelson, Sep. 10; H. D. Jenkins, Sep. 21 ; 

A. J. Johnson, Sep. 25; J. J. Brown, Oct. 4; D. McNaughton, Oct. 4; 
D. C. Milner, Oct. 4. 

1869. L. J. Matthews, Apr. 4; Reuel Dodd, Apr. 22; G. A. Beattie, May 4; 

Josiah Moore, May 11; W. H. Hillis, June ; G. H. Williamson, 

Sep. 5. 

1870. 

1871. W. H. Hyatt, ; J. F. Watkins, Apr. 7; J. Lafferty, June 14; 0. W. 

Gauss, July ; A. W. Colver, Oct. . 

1872. Duncan Brown, Apr. 23; A. Walker, Apr. 23; J. H. Miller, May 5; W. 

G. Keadv, Oct. 25; S. W. Griffin, Oct. ; J. B. Welty, Fall. 

1873. Jos. Clements, Dec. 3. 

1874. H. Stauss, Apr. 15: J. W. Van Eman, June 2; H. C. Stanton, June 9; 

W. E. Mack, Sep. 15; W. F. Matthews, Dec. 20. 

1875. Wm. Semple, ; J. F. Bruner, Apr. 17; T. H. Jones, June 9. 

1876. D. L. Lander, Mar. 29; W. R. Henderson, Apr. 13; J. S. Caruthers, Apr. 

20 ; D. R. Crockett, Oct. 29 ; John Herron, Nov. 8 ; Farel Hart, Dec. 5. 

1877. T. H. Allin, Mar. 30; T. J. May. May 15; W. M. Pocock, June 12; Wil- 

son Asdale, Sep. 12; W. E. Loucks, Oct. 12; D. S. Schaff, Oct. 28. 

1878. iS. D. Jewell, May 14; C. P. Blayney, Dec. 5. 

1879. W. A. Cravens, Apr. 1 ; A. T. Robertson, Sep. 11. 

1880. A. B. Martin, ; W. G. Pollock, ; G. P. Wilson, Oct. 14. 

1881. C. C. Hembree, Aug. 7; I. P. McCurdy, July 8; J. S. Van Meter, Oct. 31. 

1882. O. G. Morton, May 10; C. H. Brfce, Oct. 18. 

1883. F. R. Farrand, May 8; R. R. Marquis, June 12; J. H. Allin, Sep. 13; W. 

H. Wieman, Sep. 13. 

1884. S. M. Ware, May 6; E. Wachter, May IT; A. McLaren, July 16. 

1885. Wm. Weatherstone, ; W. F. Price, Oct. 22. 

1886. G. B. SDroule, ; J. L. McKee, May . 

1887. P. P. Briol, May 1 ; S. C. Bates, Nov. 3 ; H. C. Keeley, Nov. 16. 



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1888. W. M. Baird, May ; M. B. W. Granger, Oct. . 

1889. J. M. Ross, May 21 ; John B. Hill, July 5 ; W. E. Voss, Oct. 18. 

1890. E. S. Brownlee, Apr. 8 ; W. F. Shields, Apr. 30 ; W. T. Wardle, May 8 ; 

F. B. Everitt, May 9; H. M. Campbell, Sep. 13; E. P. Dunlap, Nov. 1 ; 
J. R. Stevenson, Nov. 31. 

1891. P. Heiligmann, Nov. 3; A. A. Boyd, Dec. 17. 

1892. E. W. McClusky, Apr. ; F. W. Hinitt, Apr. 18; H. A. Hymes, July. 

1893. G. F. Ayres, Apr. ; Wm. Carter, Apr. 10; H. H. Shawhan, May 

; Wm. Sickels, June 6; M. E. Krotzer, June 13; W. F. Van der 

Lippe, July ; H. C. White, Oct. 24. 

1894. L. P. Cain, ; C. C. McGinley, ; R. C. Bailey, May 3; Walter 

Hays, May 8; W. P. Nelson, May 8; J. T. Boyer, June 25; H. A. 
Brown, Nov. 8. 

1895. E. W. Clippinger, Apr. 17. 

1896. T. M. Cornelison, June 18; J. N. Pope, Apr. 6. 

1897. T. A. Clagett, Aug. ; J. D. Catlin, Oct. 5; A. E. Vanorden, Oct. 8; 

P. B. Jenkins, Oct. 21. 

1898. 

1899. W. B. Chancellor, June 8. 

1900. J. E. Stevenson, June 1; G. L. Engler, Oct. 31. 

1901. C. C. McKinney, May 3; A. E. Wardner, Jr., May 21. 



MINISTERIAL NATIVITY. 



CONNECTICUT— E. Hollister. 

DELAWARE— D. Coulter, H. M. Shockley. 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA— I. W. K. Handy. 

ILLINOIS— L. P. Cain, P. B. Jenkins, J. M. Ross, W. E. Loucks. 

INDIANA— W. M. Baird, J. F. Bruner, W. M. Cheever, W. A. Cravens, W. 
R. Henderson, W. H. Hillis, H. C. Hovey, T. J. May, R. R. Marquis, S. T. Mc- 
Clure, C. V. Monfort, L. Railsback, R. S. Reese, J. C. Thornton, R. S. Syming- 
ton, J. B. Vawter, W. E. Voss. 

IOWA— H. H. Shawhan. 

KANSAS— C. C. McKinney. 

KENTUCKY— R. H. Allen, J. Barbee, S. C. Bates, J. T. Boyer, W. L. 
Breckenridge, H. A. Brown, H. H. Cambern, T. M. Cornelison, F. R. Farrand, 
S. W. Griffin, G. W. Harlan, D. L. Lander, J. T. Lapsley, J. T. Leonard, R. L. 
McAfee, J. L. McKee, J. Montgomery, Wm. H. Pawling, J. S. VanMeter, J. W. 
Wallace, S. M. Ware, J. L. Yantis. 

MARYLAND— M. B. W. Granger, G. Hickman, W. G. Keady. 

MASSACHUSETTS— J. B. Allen, L. M. Belden, H. L. Brown, G. W. Good- 
ale, H. P. Goodrich, H. A. Nelson, A. Pomeroy, T. S. Reeve. 

MICHIGAN— E. W. Clippinger. 

MISSOURI— J. H. Allin, G. F. Ayres, Duncan Brown, J. D. Catlin, W. B. 
Chancellor, 0. W. Gauss, C. C. Hembree, John B. Hill, Wm. Sickles, W. F. Van 
der Lippe, A. E. Wardner, Jr., W. H. Wieman. 

NEW HAMPSHIRE— N. B. Dodge, Timothy Hill, Amasa Jones, C. C. Kim- 
ball, H. C. Staijton. 

NEW JERSEY— J. J. Brown, I. W. Canfield, Geo. L. Engler, A. V. C. 
Schenek. 

NEW YORK— S. B. Bell, G. A. Beattie, S. G. Clark, L. Dudley, J. S. Dun- 
ning, Hiram Sill, S. D. Jewell, C. D. Nott, W. C. Requa, W. H. Smith, D. K. 
Steele, J. C. Taylor, G. H. Williamson. 

NORTH CAROLINA— W. F. Price, E. P. Noel, L. R. Morrison. 



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OHIO— J. W. Allen, J. V. Barks, H. M. Campbell, A. Carroll, J. M. Chaney, 
J. H. Clark, W. Coleman, A. W. Colver, Eeuel Dodd, L. I. Drake, Walter ITays, 
P. Heiligman, J. Herron, Robt. Irwin, S. M. Irwin, H. D, Jenkins. Wm. Mc- 
Caughey, E. W. McClusky, J. A. P. McGaw, W. E. Mack, .). !T. Miller, D. C. 
Mihier, J. S. Poage, W. M. Poeock, W. H. Rogers, A. T. Robertson, .!. E. Steven- 
son, S. H. Weller, H. C. White. 

PENNSYLVANIA— J. R. Agnew, J. H. Baird, W. G. Bell, T. A. Bracken, 
E. S. Brownlee, C. li. Bruce J. S. Carutliers, W. P. Cochran, J. M. Dinsmore, 
q. H. Dunlap, E. P. Dunlap, F. P. Dunlap, F. B. Everitt, W. R. Fulton, G. P. 
Hays, R.H.Jackson, H. C. Keeley, M. E. Krotzer, James Lafferty, I. P. McCurdy, 
G. W. McMillan, W. B. Montgomery, Eben Muse, W. M. Newton, H. M. Paynter, 
P. Read, D. S. Schaff, Geo. K. Scott, W. F. Shields, N. H. Smith, J. R. Steven- 
son, C. L. Thompson, Josiah Thompson, J. W. Van Eman, J. B. Welty, J. A. 
Whitaker, D. A. Wilson, G. P. Wilson, James Y oung. 

SOUTH CAROLINA— H. A. Hvmes, George Miller. 

TENNESSEE— C. Bradshaw, J. H. Byers, E. M. Halbert, L. J. Matthews, 
C. C. McGinley, S. W. Mitchell, 0. G. Morton, G. A. M. Renshaw, A. G. Taylor. 

VERMONT— G. P. Beard, Hiram Chamberlain. W. F. Matthews, Benton 
Pixley. 

VIRGINIA— B. M. Hobson, T. A. Olaoett. B. F. Powelson, J. V. A. Woods, 
W. G. Thomas, Robt. Glenn, J. G. Fackler. 

WEST VIRGINIA— C. P. Blayney, W. G. Pollock, J. F. Watkins. 

BRAZIL— A. E. Vanorden. 

CANADA— A. McLaren. D. :McNaughton. 

ENGLAND AND WALES— Wm. Carter, Jos. Clements, R. C. Bailey, John 
Hancock, F. W. Hinitt, W. H. Hyatt, A. J. Johnson, T. H. Jones, Jos, Mayou, 
W. T. Wardle. 

GERMANY— C. H. Fueller, C. H. Heckmann, Fred. Lippe, H. Stauss, E. 
Wachter. 

IRELAND— Wilson Asdale, A. A. Boyd, J. F. Hendy. Jos. Piatt, Josiah 
Moore. Wm. Semple. 

NOVA SCOTIA— D. R. Crockett. 
SWITZERLAND— P. P. Briol. 
SCOTLAND— Alex. Walker, A. McDougall. 



COLLEGE ALUMNI. 



ALLEGHENY— C. H. Bruce, 1879 . 

AMHERST— G. W. Goodale, '48; L. Dudley, '51; P. Read, '59. 
BELOIT— C. C. Kimball, '59. 
BIRMINGHAM, ENG.— J. Clements, '61-62. 
BLACKBURN UNIV.— J. M. Ross, '86. 
CARROLL— C. L. Thompson, '58. 

CENTER— R. L. McAfee; Jos. Piatt, '34; J. Montgomery, '35; R. H. Allen, 
'39; J. W. Wallace, '40; J. T. Lapsley, '39; 1. W. Canfield, -44; W. H. Pawling, - 
'45: G. Eraser, '53; S. W. Mitchell, '57; G. Miller, '57; E. Muse, '60; J. F. 
Hendy, '62: J. Barbee; F. R. Farrand, '78; M. B. W. Granger, '78; D. L. 
Lander; J. L. McKee, '83; J. T. Boyer, "90; H. A. Brown, '91 ; T. M. Cornelison, 
'93. 

DARTMOUTH— Timothy Hill, '42. 
DELAWARE— J. A. Whitaker, '52. 



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DES PERES INSTITUTE— J. M. Clianey, '52. 

DICKINSON— W. P. Coclii an, "27 ; J. R. Agnew, '29. 

DRUE Y— J. H. Allin; W. H. Wieman, '80; E. W. Clippinger, '92. 

EDINBURGH UNIV.— Wm. Weatherstone, '76. 

ECOLE PREPARATOIRE DE GENEVE— A. E. Vanorden, '92. 

ELIZABETH GYMNASIUM, BRESLAU— F. Lippe, '52. 

FIRTH, ENG.— R. C. Bailey. 

FRANKLIN— W. R. Fulton, '43; G. L. Engler, '97. 
HAMILTON— H. A. Nelson, '40; H. D. Jenkins, '64. 

HANOVER— R. S. Symington, '40; J. F. Bruner, '40; R. S. Reese, '50; W. 
M, Cheever: L. I. Drake, '53; R. Invin, '54; J. B. Vawter, '59; W. G. Thomas, 
'60; S. M. Irwin; S. T. McCliire, '62; T. J. May, '74; W. A. Cravens, '75; R. R. 
Marquis, 76-78; W. M. Baird, '85; H. H. Shawhan, '90. 

ILiRVARD— W. F. Price, '80. 

HEIDELBERG, 0— W. McCaughey, '56. 

HIGHLAND UNIV.— W. H. Wieman. 

ILLINOIS— G. W. Harlan, '46. 

ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIV.— S. M. Ware, '79. 

INDIANA STATE UNIV.— J. C. Thornton, '48. 

INSTITUTE EVANGELIQUE (Glay France)— P. P. Briol. 
• JEFFERSON— 1. W. K. Handv, '34; T. A. Bracken, '42; W. M. Reed; J. 
H. Baird, "43 ; Josiah Thompson, '45 ; H. M. Paynter, '47 ; R. H. Jackson, '55 ; 

G. Fraser, '56 : W. G. Keady, '56 ; G. P. Hays, '57. 

KANSAS STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE— M. E. Krotzer. 
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY— H. H. Shawhan, '83-84; A. E. Ward- 
ner, Jr., '98. 

KNOX— C. V. Monfort, '61; W. M. Newton, '62; John B. Hill, '81. 

LAFAYETTE— D. Coulter, '38 ; I. P. McCurdy, '80. 

LIVERPOOL COLL. INSTITUTE, ENG.— T. H. Jones. 

LONDON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE— Wm. W^eatherstone. 

MANITOBA— A. McLaren, '81. 

MARIETTA— J. V. Barks, '45 ; W. J. Lee, '62. 

MARSHALL— D. A. Wilson, '45. 

MARYVILLE— C. Bradshaw, E. P. Noel, G. A. M. Renshaw, 1. B. Ricketts, 
B. Ryland, A. G. Taylor, J. V. A. Woods, C. C. Hembree, '77 ; C. C. McGinley, '91. 
MASONIC COLLEGE, KY.— J. T. Leonard, '48. 
McGILL UNIV.— P. P. Briol. 
MICHIGAN UNIV.— W. F. Matthews, '70. 
MIDDEBURY— E. Hollister, '16; H. Chamberlain, '22. 
MIAMI UNIV.— C. Sturdevant, '32: W. H. Rogers, '35; H. L. Brown, '55; 

H. M. :Shocklev. '55; J. A. P. McGaw, '56; Wm. Coleman, '60; W. H. Hillis, '65. 

MONMOUTH— Josiah Moore, '65. 

MOUNT PLEASANT— J. B. Weltv, '65-69. 

MUSKINGUM— H. C. White. 

NORTH CAROLINA UNIV.— B. M. Hobson, '37. 

PARDEE— Duncan Brown. '68. 

PARK— W. H. Wieman; STC. Bates, '77-82; W. E. Voss, '84; M. E. Krot- 
zer, '90: C. C. McKinney, '98. 

PARSONS— Wm. Carter, '91. 

PENNA. STATE NORMAL—I. P. McCurdy, '75; W. F. Shields. 
PRINCETON UNIV.— A. V. C. Schenck, '43 ; W. R. Henderson, '67 ; W. E. 
Mack, '71: F. B. Everitt, '86: Walter Hays, '91; P. B. Jenkins, '94. 
QUEEN'S COLLEGE, IRELAND— A. A. Boyd, '87. 
RIPLEY— J. S. Poage, '42. 
ROTTERDAM— C. H. Heckmann. 
RUTGERS— J. Mayou, '55 : J. J. Brown. '60. 
SEDALIA UNIV.— Wm. Sickles, -84-87.' 
SOUTH CAROLINA UNIV.— H. A. Hymes, '86. 
SOUTHWESTERN PRESBYTERIAN UNIV.— T. A. Clagett, '95. 
TROY UNIV.— Robt. Glenn, G. H. Williamson. 



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UNION— H. P. Goodrich, '26 ; J. B. Allen. '40 : W. H. Smith, '41 ; A. Mc- 
Dougall, '51; C. D. Nott, '54; J. C. Taylor, 'oS; D. K. Steele, '61; G. A. Beattie, 
'63; H. C. Stanton, '67. 

VANDERBILT— 0. G. Morton, '76. 

VERMILLION INSTITUTE— J. S. Cariithers, '70. 

VERMONT UNIV.— G. P. Beard, '60. 

VICTORIA UNIV., ENG.— W. H. Hyatt. 

WABASH— H. C. Hovey, '53 ; L. Railsback, '62 ; W. E. Loucks : L. P. Cain. 

WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON (including Washington College) — 
W. G. Bell, '35; Jas. Young, '49; W. M. Reed: J. ISL Dinsmore; R. H. Jackson, 
'55 ; G. K. Scott, '55 ; Josiah Thompson, '55 ; W. G. Ready. '56 : G. P. Havs, '57 ; 
J. W. Allen, '60 ; J. Lafferty, '60 B. F. Powelson, '60 : L. M. Belden, '6l'; C. H. 
Dunlap, '61 ; A. W. Colver, '66; D. C. Milner, '66; C. P. Blayney. '69; J. Herron, 
'69; J. W. Van Eman, '71 ; G. P. Wilson. '77 : W. G. Pollock. '78: J. R. Steven- 
son, '86 : E. S. Brownlee, '86 ; Walter Hays, '90. 

WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIV.— J. S. Van IMeter, 71. 

WASHINGTON UNIV., ST. LOUIS— 0. W. Gauss, '63. 

WAYNESBURG— D. R. Crockett. 

WESTERN RESERVE— S. G. Clark, '43 ; A. Carroll, '58 : H. C. Keeley, '84. 
WESTERN UNIV.— W. Asdale, '73. 

WESTMINSTER, MO.— C. Fueller. '61: J. F. Watkins. '68-70; G. F. 
Ayres, '87: F. W. Hinitt, '89: Wm. Sickels, '90: W. F. Van der Lippe, '90; J. 
D. Catlin. '94. 

WESTMINSTER. PA.— Josiah Moore, '60; C. H. Dunlap, '61. 
WILLIAMS— A. Pomeroy, '21. 

WITTEMBERG— S. H. Weller. '58 : R. Dodd, '66 : J. H. Miller, '68. 

WOOSTER LTNIV.— W. Pocock. '74: R. R. Marquis. '80: H. M. Camp- 
bell, '87: E. P. Dunlap, '87; W. T. Wardle, 87: E. W. McClusky: W. B. Chan- 
cellor, '96. 

YALE— D. S. Schaff, '73. 

YELLOW SPRINGS- Hiraiu Hill. '57. 



SEMINARY^ ALUMNI. 

ANDOVER— A. Jones, 1821; A. Pomeroy, '25; E. Hollister, '30; H. Cham- 
beiSlain, '25; J. V. Barks, '48; G. W. Harlan, '51; J. C. Taylor, '61; W. F. 
Price, '83. 

AUBURN— H. A. Nelson, '46 ; A. McDougall, '54 ; J. C. Taylor, '58-59 ; P. 
Read, '62; Hiram Hill, '61; H. D. Jenkins, '64-65; C. C. McGinley, '94: G. L. 
Engler, 1901. 

BELFAST— A. A. Boyd. 

BURLINGTON— G. H. Williamson. 

COLUMBIA. S. C— W. H. Smith, '44. 

DAN^^ILLE— J. H. Clark, '56; Geo. Miller, '60; S. W. Mitchell, '60; E. 
Muse, '60-61: J. Barbee; J. H. Byers, '64; F. Lippe, '64-66: J. F. Hendy, '65: 
Reul Dodd, '69: D. R. Crockett, '76; J. S. Van Meter, '78-80; W. E. Voss, '81- 
83; M. B. W. Granger, '88; J. T. Boyer, '90-92; H. A. Brown, '94. 

DUBUQUE— H. Stauss. 

ECOLE DE THEOLOGIE DE GENEVE— A. E. Vanorden, '96. 
HARTFORD— J. B. Allen, '43. 
LANCASTER— J. B. Welty, '72. 

LANE— J. V. Barks, '45-47 ; W. M. Cheever, 43 ; J. S. Poage : H. C. Hovey, 
'57 ; W. M. Newton, '65 ; L. Railsback. '67 ; W. J. Lee. "68 ; H. L. Brown, '67 ; 
0. G. Morton, '81; W. H. Wieman, '83: S. C. Bates, '85; W. T. Wardle, '90; 



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M. £. Krotzer, '90-91 ; P. Heiligmann, '91; G. B. Sproule. 

McCORMICK (including New Albany and Northwestern) — J. F. Bruner, 
'42; R. S. Symington, '44; J. T. Leonard, '52; J. C. Thornton; T. A. Bracken; 
L. I. Drake, ISS; H. M. Shockley, '57; S. H. Weller, '61; C. L. Thompson, '61; 
W. G. Thomas, "62; J. W. Allen, '63; C. H. Dunlap, '64; A. Carroll, '65; A. W. 
Colver, '69; W. R. Henderson, '76; W. E. Voss, '84; S. M. Ware, '84; M. B. W. 
Granger, '85-86 ; W. M. Baird, '88 ; J. R. Stevenson, '89 ; J. M. Ross, '89 ; J. L. 
McKee, P. G., ",90; G. P. Ayres, '91; P. W. Hinitt, '92; E. W. McClusky, '92; 
M. E. Krotzer, '93; W. P. Vander Lippe, '93; Wm. Sickels '93; L. P. Cain, '94; 
Wm. Carter, '94; Walter Hays '94; E. W. Clippinger, '95; T. M. Cornelison, 
'96; A. E. Vanorden, P. G., '96; J. D. Catlin, '97; W. B. Chancellor, '99; C. 

C. McKinney. 1898-1900; A. E. Wardner, Jr., 1901. 

MONMOUTH— Josiah Moore, '67. 

NEW BRUNSWICK— C. D. Nott, ',58 ; J. Mayou, '58 ; J. J. Brown, '65-66. 
OXPORD, O— J. A. P. McGaw, '58. 

PRINCETON— R. Glenn, '15-17; H. Chamberlain, '23-24; H. P. Goodrich, 
'26 ; W. P. Cochran, '27 ; G. Hickman, '30-32 ; J. R. Agnew, '32 ; I. W. K. Handy, 
'34-35 ; W. G. Bell, 35-37 ; J. Montgomery, '38 ; Jos. Piatt, K. 1±. Cambern, '39 ; 

D. Coulter, ■41; J. T. Lapsley, '41; J. W. Wallace, '45; A. V. C. Schenck, '46; 
W. H. Pawling, '47-48; H. M. Paynter, '49-51; D. A. Wilson, '49-51; I. W. Can- 
field, '50; J. H. Clark, '53-54; J. M. Chaney, '56; G. W. McMillan, '57; C. L. 
Thompson, '58-60; J. P. Hendy, '62-64; C. Fueller, '64; G. A. Beattie, '67; F. 
Lippe, ',67; J. Lafferty, '70: W. R. Henderson, '70-71: D. Brown, '71; J. H. 
Miller, '71; H. C. Stanton, '73; W. E. Mack, '74; J. Herron, '76; S. D. Jewell, 
'78; W. F. Price, '80-81; J. S. Van Meter, '81; I. P. McCurdy, '80-82; J. L. Mc- 
Kee, '86 ; H. M. Cambpell, '90 ; E. P. Dunlap, '90 ; F. B. Everitt, '90 ; A. A. 
Boyd; H. H. Shawhan, '91-93; H. A. Hymes, "92; J. T. Boyer, '94; P. B. Jenkins, 
'97 ; T. A. Clagett, 1900. 

QUEEN'S, TORONTO— McLaren, '81-82. 

SAN FJIANCISCO- A. T. Robertson, '75-77 ; P. P. Briol, '87. 

UNION, N. Y— J. B. Allen, '40-41; A. V. C. Schenck, '43-44; Timothy Hill, 
'45; L. Dudley, '54; C. D. Nott, '55-56: J. C. Taylor, '59-60; C. C. Kimball, '62; 
H. D. Jenkins, '67; J. J. Brown, ',68; D. C. Milner, '66-68 : W. F. ^latthews, '74; 
D. S. Schaff, '76; T. J. May, '77; W. M. Pocock, '77; C. C. Hembree, '80; A. Mc- 
Laren, '84; John B. Hill, '87; H. C. Keeley, '87. 

UNION, VA— J. R. Agnew, '29-31; B. M. Hobson, '40; 0. G. Morton, 78- 
79; H. A. Hymes, '89-91. 

UNION BIBLICAL— P. Heiligmann, '94. 

WESTERN— W. R. Fulton, '43-45; J. M. Dinsmore, '45-46; W. H. Pawling, 
'45-46 ; H. M. Paynter, '47-49 ; Josiah Thompson, '■45-47 ; Jas. Young, '52 ; R. 
Irwin, '57 : G. K. Scott, '58: G. P. Hays '58-60; R. H. Jackson, '60; J. W. Allen, 
'60-62; Wm. Coleman, '60-62; E. Muse, '62-63: J. B. Vawter, '62; L. M. Belden, 
'64: C. V. Monfort. '64; C. H. Dunlap, '64: S. T. McClure, "65; S. M. Irwin, '65; 
B. F. Powelson, '67: R. Dodd, '66-68; W. H. Hillis, '68; J. S. Caruthers, '73; J. 
W. Van Eman, '74: W. Asdale, '77; A. T. Robertson, '78 : C. P. Blayney, '78; C. 
H. Bruce, '79-81; W. G. Pollock, '81; G. P. Wilson, -80; E. Wachter. '84; S. 
M. Ware, '81-83: F. R. Farrand, '83; R. R. Marquis, '83; H. M. Campbell, '87- 
88; E. S. Brownlee. '89: W. F. Shields, '90. 

WESTERN RESERVE— S. G. Clark, '46. 

XENIA— G. A. Beattie. 

POST GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL STUDY— G. F. Ayres, S. C. Bates, A. 
W. Colyer, J. L. McKee, I. P. McCurdy, W. F. Matthews, J. R. Stevenson, W. G. 
Thomas, A. E. Vanorden. 

PRIVATE COURSE IN THEOLOGY. OR NONE— J. H. Allin, T. H. Allin, 
R. C. Bailey, J. H. Baird, G. P. Beard, S. B. Bell. Jos. Clements, J. G. Fackler, 
O. W. Gauss, G. W. Goodale, S. W. Griffin, E. M. Halbert, W. H. Hyatt, T. H. 
Jones, W. G. Keady, D. L. Lander, W. E. Loucks, R. L. McAfee, A. B. Martin, 
L. J. Matthews, W. S. Mesmer, L. R. Morrison, W. P. Nelson, W. M. Reed, W. C. 
Requa, R. S. Reese, T. S. Reeve, W. H. Rogers, Wm. Semple, D. K. Steele, J. E. 
Stevenson, A. G. Taylor, A. Walker, J. F. Watkins, J. A. Whitaker. 



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CHRONOLOGICAL REGISTER OF CANDIDATES AND 

LICENTIATES. 

PRESBYTERY OF UPPER MISSOURI 

Down to the organization of the Presbytery of Lafayette, Apr. 9, 1857. 

Those received as Candidates are marked, C; Licentiates, L. In the early Presbyteries 
covering larger territory, those in italics labored within the present bounds of Kansas City Pres- 
bytery. Those marked * -withdrew or were dropped. 

Name Enrolled Ch. or Pby. Licensed Ordained Dism'd 

Robt Scott. C Before orETzn.. . Weston Apr 5, 1845 . Sep 13, 1846 

Sam M li-vin C " " Apr 4, 1845 Oct 4, 1849 

J Thos Rankin C Apr 1846 Ebenezer Pbv Laf-t 

Luke Borland L May 28, 1846 New York Sep 11, 1846 

Richard H Allen. C May 29. 1846 Independence . Apr 2. 1847 

Thos A Bracken L Oct 13, 1848 W, Lexington Oct 13, 1848 . 

John McFarland L Apr 6, 1849 Blairsville Apr 8. 1849 

W L Mitchell C Apr 6, 1849 Ebenezer Pby Laf-t 

A V CSchneck L Apr 11, 1850 2d Pby New York Jun 8, 1850 

W Cameron C Jun 28, 1850 Winchester 

Geo W Buchanan C Jun 28, 1850 Independence . *Apr 16, 1853 

Ferd Flournoy C Jun 28, 1850 *Oct 14, 1^52 

Sam W Lambeth C Sep 27, 1857 Lexington 

Sam W Mitchell C Apr 9, 1^52 Ebenezer Pby Laf-t 

Jas B Harbison L Oct 15, 1852 New Brunswick Oct 17, 1852 

I W Canfield L Oct 15, 1852 Transylvania Oct 17, 1852 

Geo C Crow L Oct 22.1853 Washington Nov 4. 1854 

J C Thornton L Oct 22, 1853 New Albany Sep 15, 1860 

Cornelius McCane.... C Oct 7, 1854 Savannah Oat 5, 1855 

D M Smith C Oct 9. 1854 

J T Leonard L Apr 13, 1855 W Lexington Oct 22, 1856 

John M Rankin C Apr 15, 1855 Ebenezer 

Jas W Clark L Jun 20, 1855 Transylvania Jun 22, 1855 

Its Reese C Apr 11, 1856 Madison Pby Apr 14. 1856 Pby Laf-t 

J N Young L Sep 27, 1856 Transylvania Nov 16, 1856 

PRESBYTERY OF LAFAYETTE 
Down to the adoption of the Declaration and Testimony, 1866. 

WL Mitchell C at orgzn Upper Mo Sep 12, 1857 

SW Mitchell C at orgzn •■ Apr9, 1859 Sep 25, 1860 

J W Cameron C at orgzn Sep 12, 1857 

J M Rankin C at orgzn 

Jas M Chancy L Apr 2, 1858 St. Louis Apr 4, 1858 

F J Reichert C Oct 2, 1858 Independence 

D W Lvon L Oct 10, 1858 Dubuque Apr 20, 1867 

R S Rif-^t L at orgzn Upper Mo Jun 4, 1859 

John H Hu Tf'inan C Apr 9. 1860 Pisgah Died 

George Miller L Sep 22, 1860 Transylvania Nov 4, 1860 

P Arnold L Sep 22, I860..: Montgomery 

Joshua Barbee L Apr 13, 1866 Transylvania Oct 9. 1866 



PRESBYTERY OF LAFAYETTE. 
After Reorganization (Assembly Party.) 

Thos B McHarg C Oct 10, 1867 *Sep 25, 1868 

A J Johnson L Apr 4, 1868 Sydney Sep 25, 1868 

PRESBYTERY OF OSAGE 
Down to the Reunion. 

Enos 3/ Halbert C Apr 27 1866 North Prairie Apr 28. 1866 Oct 12. 1867 

L J Matthews C Oct 12, 1867 Apr 4, 1869 

Sam E Taylor C Apr 15, 1870 Butler 



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PRESBYTERY OF OSAGE 
After Reunion. 

Name Enrolled Ch. or Pby. Licensed Ordained Dism'd 

John W Talbot C Sep 23, 1870 Pleasant Hill Ch Sep 18, 1871 

Jos H France 0 Oct 15, 1870 Sedalia 1st Ch Apr 21, 1871 Sep 18, 1871 

Francis Pollock C Apr 21, 1871 *Aprl2, 1876 

W H Miller (col'd).... L Sep 24, 1871 W Lexington *Aprl3. 1876 

Chas A Holm C Oct 9, 1871 Greenwood Ch Apr 12, 1877 Apr 12, 1877 

Duncan Brown L Apr 20, 1872 Palmyra Apr 23, 1872 

Alex Walker L Apr 22, 1870 Indep Ch England Apr23, 1872 

H Stauss L Apr 15, 1874 Wisconsin River Apr 15, 1874 

Jas Mitchell C Apr 15, 1874 K C First Ch Sep 10, 1874 Apr 15, 1875 

J F Bruner, M D C Apr 16, 1874 Apr 17, 1875 

J W Talbot L Sep 9, 1874 Transylvania Apr 12, 1876 

W H Wieman C Sep 9, 1874 Lexington Ch Jun 27, 1883 Sep 13, 1883 

Wm P Baker L Sep 15, 1875 Neosho Oct 18, 1878 

Farel Hart L Sep 13, 1876 Chicago Dec 5, 1876 

Chas P Blayney L Dec 5, 1878 Washington Dec 5, 1878 

B D Luther L ? Apr 9, 1879 

A T Robertson L Sep 10, 1879 Wooster Sep 11, 1879 

Edgar Jameson C Sep 10, 1879 *Apr 14, 1880 

Allan D Carlile C Apr 13, 1881 K C Second Ch Apr 12, 1882 

J Hays Allin C Sep 13, 1882 Sep 13, 1883 

Jos H Hess G Sep 13, 1882 *Sep 29, 1886 

G-eo M Caldwell L Sep 12, 1883 New Brunswick Oct 22. 1884 

E E Stringfield C Sep 9, 1884 Salem Ch April, 1889 Apr 8, 1890 

Chas E McCane C Sep 15, 18a5 K C First Ch Apr 12, 1888 

H E Curry C Sep 15, 1885 Sedalia First Ch *Apr 12, 1888 

A R McClellan C Sep 16, 1885 *Apr 12, 1888 

Robt A Thompson .... C K C Second Ch Apr 14, 1886 '^'Apr 9, 1890 

John B Hill C K C Second Ch Jun 8, 1886 Apr 9, 1889 

Sam C Bates L Sep 28, 1887 St Louis Nov 3, 1887 

Horace C Keeley L Sep 28, 1887 New York Oct 14, 1887 

W B Chancellor C Apr 10, 1889 Clinton Ch Apr 13, 1898 Jun 8, 1899 

Chas W Hays C May 21 1889 K C Second Ch May 20.1890 Jun 6, 1891 

E PDunlap L Sep 24, 1890 Wooster Nov 7, 1890 

Chas H Davis C Oct 22, 1890 Jefferson City Ch *Apr 14, 1897 

J R Stevenson L Dec 9, 1890 Chicago Dec 31, 1890 

G E Keithley C Jun 16, 1891. Salt Springs Ch May 8, 1894 

Andrew A Boyd L Dec 17, 1891 Phila. Central Dec 17, 1891 

F W Hinitt L Apr 22, 1892 Upper Missouri : Apr 22, 1892 

Walter Hays C Apr 22, 1892 K C Second Ch Apr 5. 1893 May 8, 1894 

Wm Sickels L May 29,1893 Chicago . . Jun 6, 1893 

A C V Skinner L May 29, 1893 Cayuga Apr 4, 1894 

J C McFall C Oct 19, 1893 Nevada Ch *Apr 26. 1894 

W P Nelson O Anr 4, 1894 Tipton Ch Apr 5. 1894 May 8, 1894 

A E Wardner, Jr C Apr 10, 1895 Linwood Ch May 11, 1900 May 21, 1901 

W R Dodd C Apr 15, 1896 Sed. BVay Ch 

T M Cornelison L Jun 9, 1896 Ebenezer Jun 18, 1896 

P B Jenkins C Jun 9, 1896 K C Second Ch Jun 9, 1896 Oct 21, 1897 

C Lee Reynolds C Sep 23, 1896 K C Second Ch Sep 27, 1899 

A E Vanorden L Sep 29, 1897 Chicago Oct 8, 1897 

J E Stevenson C Apr 12, 1899 Raymore Ch Apr 12, 1899 Jun 1, 1900 

Francis Y Nichols.... C May 23, 1899 Clinton Ch Junl, 1900 

Chas C McKinney .... L Sep 26, 1900 Platte May 3, 1901 



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CHRONOLOGICAL REGISTER. 



CHURCH GROUPINGS. 

As far as ascertainable from the Minutes of the Presbytery and of the Gen- 
eral Assembly. (Since the Reunion) . 

APPLETON CITY— Westfield, 73-75; Schell City and Prosperity, 76-7; 
Montrose, 77-9; Westfield, 77-82; Deepwater, '86-8; Montrose, '88-91; West- 
field, '92 ; Schell City, '94-5 ; Pastor-at-Large, '96ff. 

AULLVILLE— Lexington, '74. 

AUSTIN— Creighton, '72-85. 

BELTON — Raymore and Pleasant Hill. 

BETHEL — Freeman, 73; Greenwood and Ebenezer (Raymore) '77-9; Free- 
man and Sharon '79-80. 

BROWNINGTON— Osceola, 75 ; Osceola and Westfield, '76-7 ; Osceola, 77- 
91 J Deepwater since '91.. 

BUTLER— Lone Oak, '72-4. 

CALIFORNIA— High Point, '71. 

CENTERVIEW— Warrensburg, '74; Sharon, '82; Greenwood, '84-6; Malta 
Bend, '89; Greenwood, '91-3; Pastor-at-Large, '95-7, '98-9; Knobnoster, '99. 

CLINTON— Warsaw and Sunny Side, 74; Montrose, '76. 

CREIGHTON— Austin, 72-3; Freeman and East Lynne, '77; Austin, 78- 
85; Greenwood, '88-9 ; Montrose, '92; Raymore, '93; Centerview, '96; Pastor-at- 
Large, '97ff. 

DEEPWATER ( OLD ) —Montrose, '71-3. 

DEEPWATER— Westfield and Montrose, '86; Westfield, •87-91; Browning- 
ton, '91. 

DREXEL — Sharon, '92-7 ; Sharon and Fairview, '98. 

EL DORADO SPRINGS— Schell City and Providence, '84; Schell City, 
'87-8; Schell City and Rockville, '89; Schell City, '91-2; Montrose, '93-5; Pastor- 
at-Large, '98ff . 

FAIRVIEW— Lone Oak, -95-6; Lone Oak and Schell City, '96-7; Sharon 
and Drexel, '97ff. 

FREEMAN— Bethel, '73; Creighton and East Lynne, '77; Sharon, '78-9; 
Sharon and Bethel, '79-80; Sharon, 81. 

GREENWOOD— Kingsville, '71; Raymore, '73; Pleasant Hill, '74; Ray- 
more and Bethel, '77-9; Raymore, '84; Centerview, '84-6; Creighton, '88-6; 
Knobnoster and Salem, '90; Centerview, '90-3; Pastor-at-Large. 

HIGH POINT— California, '71; Tipton, '86-7; Pastor-at-Large, '92-8; Tip- 
ton, '98ff. 

HUME— Rockville. 

KNOBNOSTER— Lamonte, '71-80; Sunnyside, 79; Salem, '81-9; Salem 
and Greenwood, '90 ; Salem, '90-98 ; Centerview, '99. 

KANSAS CITY FOURTH— Walrond Ave Mission ,'93ff; Hill memorial, '98. 
KANSAS CITY, HILL MEMORIAI^Fourth, '98. 
KINGSVILLE— Greenwood, 71. 
LAMONTE— Knobnoster, '72-80. 

LAYNESVILLE— Malta Bend '79; Malta Bend and Salt Springs, '79-83. 
LEXINGTON— Aullville, '74. 

LITTLE OSAGE^Schell City, Prosperity and Nevada, '77. 

LONE OAK— Butler, '72-4; Schell City and Montrose, 77-9; Rockville, 
'82-4; Rockville and Montrose, '84; Rich Hill, '87; Sharon, 89; Fairview and 
Schell City, -95-6 ; Pastor-at-Large, '93-4, '99ff. 

LOWRY CITY— Westfield, '93. 

MALTA BEND— Salt Springs, '75-9; Salt Springs and Laynesville, 79-82; 
Salt Springs, '83-6; Centerview, '89; Pastor-at-Large, '92; Salt Springs, '98-9. 

MONTROSE— Deepwater, '71-3; Appleton City, '74-7; Schell City and 
Lone Oak, 77-9; Appleton City, '79; BroAvnington, '79; Osceola, '81; Schell 
City, '82; Lone Oak and Rockville, '84; Schell City and Providence, '84-5; 
Westfield and Deepwater, '86; Appleton City, '88-91; El Dorado Springs, '93-5; 
Pastor-at-Large, '96ff. 



CHURCH GROUPINGS. 



97 



NEVADA— Schell City, Prosperity and Little Osage, 77 ; Prosperity, 77-9. 
OSCEOLA — Browingtoii, '75; Browington and Westfield, 76-7; Browning- 
ton, 78-80; Montrose, '81; Brownington, '82-91; Vista, '92ff. 
OTTER VILLE—Smithton, '71-2. 

PLEASANT HILL— Greenwood, '74; Southern Church, 77; Greenwood 
and Raymore, '79-80; Raymore, '81-2; Southern Church, 'SSff. 

PLEASANT PRAIRIE— Sunnyside and Windsor, '80; Sunnyside and 
Warsaw, '81-2. 

PROSPERITY— Appleton City and Schell City, '76-7 ; Schell City, Nevada 
and Little Osage, '77; Nevada, '78-9; Rockville, '85. 

PROVIDENCE— Schell City and El Dorado Springs, '84; Schell City and 
Montrose, "85. 

RAYMORE— Greenwood and Bethel, '77-9; Pleasant Hill, 79-82; Green- 
wood, '84; Creighton, '93. 

RICH HILL— Rockville, '82; Lone Oak, '87. 

ROCKVILLE— Rich Hill, '82; Lone Oak, '83-4; Lone Oak and Montrose, 
'84; Prosperity, "85; El Dorado Springs and Schell City, '89. 

SALEM — Knobnoster, '81-9; Knobnoster and Greenwood, '90; Knob- 
noster, '91-8. 

SALT SPRINGS— Malta Bend, '75-9; Malta Bend and Laynesville, 79-83; 
Malta Bend, "83-6; Saline (SoiTthern), , Pastor-at-Large, '92, '99. 

SCHELL CITY— Appleton City and Prosperity, 76-7; Nevada, Prosper- 
ity and Little Osage, '77; Montrose and Lone Oak, '77-9; Montrose, 82; Pro- 
vidence and El Dorado Springs, '84; Montrose and Providence, '84-5; El Dorado 
Springs, '87-8: El Dorado Springs and Rockville, 89-91; El Dorado Springs, 
'91-2; Appleton City, '94-6; Pastor-at-Large, '96ff. 

SHARON— Freeman, '78-9; Freeman and Bethel, 79-80; Centerview, '82; 
Lone Oak, '89-90; Drexel, '92-8; Drexel and Fairview, '98ff. 

SMITHTON— Otterville, '71-2. 

SUNNYSIDE— Warsaw, '72-3; Warsaw and Clinton, 74; Windsor, 75 ,» 
WarsaAv, '78-9; Windsor, 79; Knobnoster, '79; Pleasant Prairie and Windsor, 
'80; Pleasant Prairie, Windsor and W^arsaw, '81-3; Warsaw, '84-92; Pastor- 
at-Large, '92-8 : Warsaw. '98ff. 

TIPTON— High Point, '86-7, '96, '98: Versailles (Southern), "99; High 
Point, '00. 

VISTA— Osceola. '92ff. 

WARRENSBURG— Centerview, '74. 

WARSAW— Sunnyside, '72-3; Sunnyside and Clinton, '74; Sunnyside, 
'78-9 ; Sunnyside and Windsor, '79 ; Sunnyside, Pleasant Prairie and Windsor, 
'81-3; Sunnyside, '84-92: Pastor-at-Large, '92-8; Sunnyside, '98ff. 

WESTFIELD— Appleton City, '73-5; Osceola and Brownington, '76-7; 
Appleton City. '77-82; Deepwater, '86-91; Appleton Citv, '^2; Dowry City, '93ff. 

WINDSOR — Sunnyside, '75, '79; Sunnyside and^Pleasant Prairie, '80; 
Sunnyside, Pleasant Prairie and Warsaw '81. 




LofC. 



SKETCHES OF PRESBYTERIES^ 



HAEMONY MISSION AND THE FIRST PEESBYTERY OF 

OSAGE. 

The following sketch is mainly a condensation of a paper read by 
the Eev. Timothy Hill, D. D., at the meeting of the Presbytery of 
Osage, held at Osceola, Sept. 23, 1885.* 

In the year 1819 the United Foreign Mission Society sent two 
men as exploring agents among the Indians in what was then known 
as Missouri Territory. In the prosecution of their work they had an 
interview with several chiefs of the Osage Indians, and arranged for a 
Mission among them. They finally selected a site for their Mission on 
the west side of the Grand Eiver, about 20 miles above Fort Gibson, 
in the present Cherokee country. This is the first notice we have of 
the Osages as attracting the attention of Christian people, or any 
endeavors to carry the Gospel to them. 

The Osages were a tribe of Indians that claimed and occu- 
pied, as wandering hunters do, the region south of the Kansas 
Eiver to the Arkansas, thus embracing a considerable portion of what 
is now Western Missouri, Eastern Kansas, and the territory now 
occupied by the Cherokee and the Creek Indians. Their numbers at 
that time were estimated at about 8,000. They were divided into two 
bands, one of which had its headquarters in what is now the Cherokee 
country, and the other centered along the Marais des Cygiies Eiver 
of Missouri. They were wild Indians, following the chase and doing 
little or nothing in cultivating the soil, and they were almost constantly 
at war with some neighboring Indians. 

A Mission company, consisting of nine men and eight women, was 
sent out by the Society in the year 1820 to establish a Mission among 
the Osages of the Grand Eiver. Two of the ladies died on the journey 
out. * ❖ * * 

Having made a beginning with the Osages of the Grand River, 
the Society decided to send another company to the Osages in Missouri, 
and a second company was formed, which left New York for its des- 
tination, March 7th, 1821. This company was larger than the one of 
the preceding year, as there were 25 adults and 16 children in the 
group. There were three ordained ministers, Eev. N. B. Dodge, of 
Underbill, Yt. ; Eev. Benton Pixley, of Williamstown, Vt., and the 
Eev. William B. Montgomery, of Danville, Pa. There were a doctor 

♦Another interesting account, apparently from a Missionary source, appears in 
the History of Cass and Bates counties, 1883, pp. 796 ff. See also frequent notices 
in the Missionary Herald, 1821 t£. 



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101 



and farmers, mechanics and schoolmasters in the company. This 
company came by way of the Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri and Osage 
Eivers, on keelboats, but did not all reach their destination — one of 
the ladies dying on the boat and being buried in Shawneetown, 111.* 

The place selected for their station was on the Marais des Cygnes 
Eiver, in what is now Bates county, near Papinville. To it they gave 
the name of Harmony, and the place was known as Harmony Mission. 
They began their preparations for winter by building cabins of round 
logs for shelter. They soon had a school for Indian children. The 
Ministers began to preach as best they could by the clumsy aid of an 
interpreter, but set themselves diligently to the work of learning the 
language in order better to tell the Gospel message to those to whom 
they were sent. , 

This was no poetic Mission work, for the wandering and predatory 
habits of the Indians rendered it exceedingly difficult for the Mis- 
sionaries to gain access to them, and the little instruction given was 
soon forgotten on their hunting and predatory excursions. The toil 
and hardship of their situation may be understood when it is told that 
four of the adults and five of the children of this group died before they 
had been there one year. 

In August, 1822, a church of twenty members was organized, con- 
sisting mainly of persons connected with the Mission families. For 
years they worked hard and patiently, keeping up a school, but accom- 
plished little for the adults. Relig^ious impressions were made upon 
the children, but the men were often away on distant buffalo hunts, 
or, far worse, on murderous war parties. The Missionaries, especially 
Montgomery and Pixley, sometimes accompanied them on their hunts 
in order to acquire their language, which they at length acquired suf- 
ficiently to preach in it. The language was reduced to writing, and 
small portions of the Scriptures were translated into it. 

The church which was formed in 1822 received but two additions 
in ten years, when their hearts were cheered by the addition of eighteen 
persons. Of these five were Osages, three Delawares, one Omaha, two 
colored, and the remainder from the Mission families. The increase 
was the fruit of a precious revival in their school, and such was the 
extent of it that it was said, "walking out morning or evening you 
would hear the voice of prayer in almost any direction.^^ 

An interesting incident of this school is the fact that among its 
pupils were some who were descendants of the Indians to whom David 
Brainerd preached in New Jersey. The mother of these children re- 
membered Brainerd well, said that he lived among them, sleeping on 
the ground on a bear skin, intent only to tell them the story of Christ, 
and thus he won all their hearts. 

♦After a most laborious passage they landed in Bates Co., Aug. 9, 1821. 



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SKETCHES OF PRESBYTERIES. 



In 1836 the Mission was given np and the work for the 
Indians abandoned.* There were several causes for this discouraging 
result, but mainly the constant encroachments of white settlers. The 
Osages were not hostile to the whites, nor greatly addicted to intem- 
perance at first, but traders brought whisky and other evils among 
them, and at length they were moved beyond the bounds of Missouri. 
Their frequent wandering in the chase and their murderous war parties 
totally unfitted the adults for hearing and obeying the Gospel. At 
length the people were gone from their original habitations, and it 
seemed useless to attempt to follow them up. f 

But although this Mission did not accomplish great results for ihe 
Indians, it became the center of Christian influence for this portion of 
the State when the Indians were gone and the white men had their 
place. In November, 1823, the Missionaries in Harmony and Union 
Missions and the Dwight Mission of the Cherokees, formed an asso- 
ciation which they called the "Indian Mission Presbytery/' 
This continued many years, and finally, under the name of Har- 
mony Presbytery became a part of the Synod of Missouri. In 1846 
the name was changed by the Synod to Osage, which name was perpetu- 
ated by this Presbytery down to 1887. 

That Mission Presbytery received and finally ordained Dr. Marcus 
Palmer, Amasa Jones and William C. Requa. Mr. Dodge, Mr. Jones, 
Mr. Pixley and Mr. Requa were all commissioned by the American 
Home Missionary Society, and labored in this region. Mr. Pixley was 
commissioned Sept. 24, 1831, for Independence, probably the first 
regular preaching in that city. Mr. Dodge was commissioned April 
25, 1836, to labor in the vicinity of Harmony Mission Station. Mr. 
Jones was commissioned April 25, 1836, to labor one-half time at the 
station, one-quarter at Deepwater, and one-quarter at the mouth of 
the Sac River, near where Osceola now is. Thus all the region of the 

*"In 1826 these (Union and HarmoAy Missions) with other Missions of that 
Society, were transferred to the American Board, in pursuance of the union then 
consummated between the two Societies. At this time there were only eleven per- 
sons connected with the Mission at the Harmony station. A number of families 
from among the agricultural and lay members of the original establishment, had 
already left in consequence of the many and peculiar difficulties attending the en 
terprise ; among which, though not the chief, were the inundations by which their 
property and the products of their labor were repeatedly destroyed. The report of 
the Board for 1827 says, in reference to this Mission, that 'no modern effort among 
the American Indians has been attended with more trials of various kinds.' " 

+ The Missionary Herald for May, 1836, p. 194 f, says: "Owing to the incon- 
venient location of the Union and Harmony stations, each being forty or fifty miles 
from the present Osage territory, it has been thought expedient to discontinue mis- 
sionary operations' at both ; and, as the Osages are at present in tt state very unfavor- 
able for enjoying the benefit of Christian instruction, on account of the uncertainty 
which exists relative to their future residence, Rev. N. B. Dodge and Messrs. D. H. 
Austin and A. Redfield, with their wives, have signified their desire to retire from 
that field of labor, and they have accordingly been honorably released from further 
service of the Board. Rev. A. Jones will for the present labor in the white settle- 
ments near Harmony, though without any immediate connection with the Board ; 
and if there should be a favorable opening among the Osages, he will resume his 
labors." Such an opening seems never to have come. Gradually the Harmony 
church became disintegrated, the Dodges and some others forming the nucleus of 
the Little Osage church, the Jones and Austin families that of the Deepwater church, 
the Requas that of the Double Branches (Lone Oak) church, and the Redfields that 
of the Marmiton church. Descendants of all these families still live in that region. 



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103 



Presbytery had its first Gospel tidings from these Indian Missionaries. 

There was another work of this Home Mission Presbytery which 
has a singular aspect as we see it today. Among the persons brought 
under the influence of that Mission was a- slave, who was so devout a 
Christian and so able a man that he was trained to preach the Gospel. 
But even then they did not dare to recognize him as having a nanae. 
As a man they simply called him Nicholas, and they hoped he would 
ultimately be sent as a Missionary to Liberia. His clerical life thus 
begun enlarged in influence, and he sought ordination by the Presby- 
tery of Missouri ; but there was one man in that Presbytery who would 
not consent to ordain a colored man, and he was refused. He went to 
the Cumberlands, who ordained him, and he appears with a full name, 
Nicholas Carper. He became free ; I think through the agency of the 
Mission, but I have not a full proof of that as a fact. Having become 
free, he diligently toiled until he secured the freedom of his family, 
and soon after died. He was said to be a modest man, a pleasant 
speaker and an interesting preacher. He evidently had some humor, 
as he said he had heard that a negro had no soul, but as he was three- 
quarters white, he thought he might have three-quarters of a soul. 

From the original Mission band came many of the Elders and 
most efficient workers of the churches of this region, and we are thus 
vitally connected with it today. The last of the Indian Missionaries 
to die was the Eev. William C. Eequa, M. D., a member of the original 
band that came out to the Osages of the Indian Territory in 1820, 
who died among us in 1886, aged 92. The Missionaries are all gone 
to the Heavenly Land and with them, we trust, some of the Osages 
for whom they toiled so long and patiently. But where are the living 
Osages today ? What has become of them ? They still live, number- 
ing several thousands yet, no longer a wandering band, but settled 
down in the Indian Territory, not far from where we now are, and 
they are mainly pagans still. When the Presbyterian Church left 
them, they wandered alone for years, until the Eoman Catholics estab- 
lished a Mission among them, and the present town of Osage Mission 
in Kansas marks the locality of their station. 

After their removal to the Territory the Quakers did something 
for them. But the greater part are pagans still, pagans after whom we 
were named, whose fair lands we now possess, and for whom the men 
who originally formed this Presbytery toiled and prayed. Do we 
owe them nothing? Can we leave them so near us, so related to us, 
to grope their dark way to a hopeless Eternity, and do nothing for them ? 
Is there not a manifest duty for the Osage Presbytery to do something 
for the Osages themselves ? Mr. Montgomery died suddenly of cholera 
in 1834, looking forward with joyous anticipation, sa3dng to his atten- 
ant, "Can it be that in less than twenty-four hours I shall be walking 
the streets of the New Jerusalem ?" He cent messages to his associates 
in the Station : "Tell them not to give over to the Osages, and not to 
account any sacrifices to great for their salvation." Brethren of the 



104 SKETCHES OF PRESBYTERIES. 



Osage Presbytery, does not this message sent so many years ago, reach 
even to ns, and have we not something to do for the 0 sages perishing 
in our sight, and almost at onr very doors ? Thns asked Dr. Timothy 
Hill a few months before his death. But nothing has been done by 
the Presbytery concerning the Osages since then but to erase their 
name from the name of the Presbytery itself, and substitute for it 
that of Kansas City. May G-od forgive us and be more merciful 
to them and to us than we have been to those poor dying heathen !* 

PRESBYTERY OF MISSOURI. (1817-1844). 

Several unsuccessful attempts have been made to get permission 
to read the records of the Presbytery of Missouri down to the year 
1844, when the Presbytery of Upper Missouri was organized to cover 
this part of the Synod. Those records are now in possession of the 
Southern Church. After that date a few of the churches in the 
eastern part of our present Presbytery remained in the Presbytery of 
Missouri. Except in the churches of Boonville and Jefferson City, 
however, the latter Presbytery never made much impression upon this 
territory. 

PRESBYTERY OF UPPER MISSOURI (1844-1857). 

During the period in which the Presbytery of Upper Missouri 
covered this territory there was a steady growth along all lines, hi.t no 
remarkable developments. The most noticeable feature of the work 
was the effort to get a Presbyterial College. The effort was first to 
found a Synodical College. About 1852 there was a project to locate 
it at Sweet Springs, in Saline County; but the friends of Richmond, 
Ray County, succeeded in getting it located there, the Synodical Col- 
lege having meanwhile been located at Fulton, Callaway County. 
Richmond College therefore fell under tLa control of Upper Missouri 
Presbytery until the division, when Upper Missouri and Lafayette 
Presbyteries had a joint control. Dr. John L. Yantis was its only 
President, 1855-1859. In spite of his vigorous efforts, backed by the 
two Presbyteries, the scheme failed for lack of endowment. No doubt 
'^the shadows of the coming civil strife in the land from 1861 to 1865 
had a share in the failure." 

In the fall of 1856 the Presb5rtery of Upper Missouri overtured 
the Synod of Missouri to divide it into two Presbyteries, Upper Mis- 
souri and Lafayette, with a view to the erection of a new Synod of 
Upper Missouri out of these two and a "Kansas" Presbytery. The 
new Synod of Upper Missouri was formed too near the outbreak of 
the Civil War to prosper, having a nominal existence only during most 
of its history, 1857-1864. In the latter year the Presbyteries of Upper 
Missouri and Lafayette were reattached to the Synod of Missouri. 

♦Considerable further information as to tlie first Presbytery of Osage is found 
among the sketches of Ministers, particularly in letters from . V. Barks, I. W. K. 
Handy, L. R. Morrison and W. H. Smith. 



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105 



LAFAYETTE PRESBYTERY. (1857-1870). 

The Presbytery of Lafayette passed the first few years of its 
existence in connection with the Synod of Upper Missouri, until that 
Synod was dissolved on account of the War. 

It started out vigorously to prosecute the work within its own 
bounds. Early efforts were made to organize new churches, especially 
in the southern part oi the Presbytery, to support the college at Rich- 
mond, to collect historical information concerning all churches in its 
bounds and concerning such ministers as had died while serving them. 
Unfortunately the information, if any, gleaned by the Historical Com- 
mittee, seems not to have been preserved. When, in 1859, a remnant 
of the old Osage Presbytery (N. S.) united with Lafayette, a commit- 
tee of the old Missionaries was appointed to write a history of the Har- 
mony Mission. That likewise seems to have been lost. 

All branches of the work of this Presbytery seemed to have been 
well pushed, up to the time when the horrors of Civil War devastated 
its fair territory. Just before that time a young man had joined it 
who nearly thirty years later gave his reminiscences at a meeting of 
its successor, the Presbytery of Osage. Extracts from that paper by 
Dr. Geo. Miller, read at the meeting of Presb3rtery in Holden, 1888, 
constitute the remainder of this notice of Lafayette. 

DR. GEORGE MILLER'S REMINISCENCES. 

"You will pardon me what may seem personal, for 'Reminis- 
cences^ must needs be personal. My relation to this body began with 
my earliest ministry twenty-eight years ago. 

^ H< ^ H: Hi 

"It seems in every light but proper that these Reminiscences 
should especially emphasize that decade in . our history, to which all 
before points, and from which all after radiates, the transition period 
of the Church as well as of State history. 

H: Hi Hi 

"In 1861 the Presbytery of Lafayette embraced twenty-seven 
counties in the southwest corner of the State, extending from the Mis- 
souri River to the Arkansas line. It contained twenty-one ministers, 
t"hirty-four churches and 1,478 members. The single county of La- 
fayette furnished 650 of these, and the three counties of Lafayette, 
Jackson and Cass contained 1,100 of them, leaving only 378 members 
of our church in the remaining twenty-four counties, an average of less 
than sixteen members per county. 

"We only had five churches and 143 members within the territory 
now composing Ozark Presbytery, and only two of these remain now 
upon her roll. There were, as nearly as we can learn, only sixteen 
church buildings in these twenty-seven counties, and eight of these 

8 



106 



SKETCHES OF PEESBYTERIES. 



were located in Lafayette and Jackson ConntieSj and two of these we:e 
burned during the war. 

"The last full meeting of the Presbytery prior to the war, was held 
in Longwood Church, in Pettis Coun^, about ten hiiles north of where 
Sedalia now stands. On our way to that meeting, sixty miles on hor.-e- 
back, we passed over the site of this flourishing city of Holden, then 
marked only by a lonely farm-house, and in company with Elder John 
Caldwell, who two years and five months later was killed by Federal 
troops near Westport. 

"It was on the 12th to the 15th days of April, 1861. We were in 
session on the day that Fort Sumpter was surrendered. The sad news 
reached us on Sabbath morning, just as we were gathering to celebrate 
the Lord's Supper. It was a mournful day, as all felt that that tragic 
event meant war — long, cruel, and to this State, bloody, fratricidal 
war. What a sadly mournful and solemn scene in this sorely divided 
State, as we sat together for the last time around the Lord's table ! A 
very few of us were pronounced Union men, more were outspoken 
Southerners, and some were then halting between two opinions, and all 
felt that we would never meet in Presbytery or at the Lord's table 
again ; and we never did. 

"In the fall of 1861 we were to have met in High Grove Church, 
on Little Blue Creek, about fifteen miles southeast of Kansas City, in 
Jackson County. But when the time came, J. W. Wallace, S. W. 
Mitchell and George Miller were the only ministers. We met only to 
adjourn and fly before an armed band of foragers, of whose methods 
discrimination formed no i^art. This little church in the shady grove 
was burned a few months later by Federal troops in supposed retalia- 
tion, because they had been fired upon from ambush in that neighbor- 
hood. JSTot a vestige of the organization remains. 

"In the spring of 1862, three ministers met in Pleasant Hill, but 
nothing was done, but adjourn, to meet in Hopewell Church, Octobjr 
2d, on a beautiful fertile prairie about fifteen miles southwest of Lex- 
ington, near the present town of Odessa. This was the charge of our 
dear brother, David Coulter, noted and loved for his clear-headed 
theology, deep piety and warm Christian spirit. Besides the pastor 
J. W. Wallace, R. S. Symington and George Miller, made up the roll of 
that meeting. Yet it was a quiet, pleasant meeting, attended by old 
people, women and children, and full of sadness, charity and devotion 
— a sort of spiritual sunset, before a long, dark, bitter and cruel night 
of three and one-half years duration. The war-cloud now gathered 
and thickened and blackened, and swept in successive cyclones over our 
bounds, devastating and largely depopulating the country, and scatter- 
ing ministers and members far and wide ; so that all religious services 
were suspended, except some occasional services in Kansas City, Inde- 
pendence and Lexington. The Hopewell Church in which we he'd 



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this meeting, was also burned a year later — a fitting setting of the last 
hope of Church work, 'mid scenes of anarchical and lawless warfare. 

"Our Presbytery met no more until April, 1866, and when it did, 
it was but the fragments of what it was— a wreck in ministers, 
churches, members and Christian spirit. Of the twenty-one that met 
five years ago, only five remained, viz., D. Coulter, J. W. Wallace, J . 
M. Chaney, William Dickson and George Miller. 

"But what of the Churches ? It is a fearful evidence of the 
scourge of the war that from 1861 to 1866, one-half of all the churches 
on our roll became utterly extinct, not appearing on the records of 
either Assembly. And in the places of twelve out of thirty-four, no 
organization has ever been revived. Of the surviving organizations, 
eleven are now [1888] in the Southern connection and six in the 
Northern ; four in this and two in Ozark Presbytery. 

"And great changes continue to mark our history as a Presbytery. 
In 1860 we did not have a mile of railroad within our bounds. The 
coming of railroads has entirely changed the geographical terminology, 
and we find twenty of our forty-one churches in places that had no ex- 
istence at that date, as Sedalia, Holden, Kaymore, Eich Hill, Centre 
View, Brownington, Tipton , Appleton, Greenwood, Montrose and 
others. 

"The following statistical footings of our Presbytery are fallen 
from the Assembly's minutes for the years 1861, 1866, 1867 and 1869. 
By comparative analysis we can get the clearer view of this transition 
period ; and it will be seen that this Presbytery virtually dates its 
existence from the close of the war. I have not the records of the New 
School Presbytery, but learn that it became extinct in 1859, and was 
reorganized in April, 1866. 



STATISTICS OF LAFAYETTE PEESBYTERY, 



Year. 


Ministers. 


Churches. 


By Examination. 


By Certificate. | 


Communicants, total 


Baptisms, Adults. 


Baptisms, Infants. 


Sunday School. 


Home Missions, 


Foreign Missions. 


Education. 


Publication. 


Church Erection. 


Relief. 


Assembly, 


Congregational. 


1861. 


21 


34 


129 


66 


1 478 


64 


74 


309 


201 


116 


7 621 


25 


24 






12 887 


1866- 


9 


18 


17 


55 


960 


4 


24 


435 




38 










50 


2 655 


1867. 


11 


21 


27 


144 


920 


5 


27 


235 


46 




' 12 




"7 


"5 


10 


2 454 


1869. 


11 


14 


48 


152 


573 


14 


20 


644 


153 


i24 


98 


41 


81 


12 


101 


7 759 



"Let us now make some comments upon these tables. 
"Note 1st. That in 1866 all the ministers who the next fall went 
into the ^Declaration and Testimony^ or Independent Southern Synod 



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were still on the roll. Of the nine, George Miller alone remained in 
the Northern Assembly. 

"Note 2d. That in 1866 all the Southern Churches wA-e also on 
our roll. Of the eighteen, all went South, except Warrensburg, and a 
ver}^ few members in Kansas City and Pleasant Hill. 

"Note 3d. That the Synod dividing in October, 1866, and there 
being but one adherent [George Miller] of the Northern Assembly in 
Lafayette Presbytery, the Presbytery was, from necessity, reorganized 
by the action of the S3'nod in October, 1866, by transferring Rev. 
George Frazer from the St. Louis Presbytery, and the Eev. N. H. 
Smith from the Presbytery of Upper Missouri, and so constituting the 
Assembly's Presbytery of Lafayette. The Rev. Eben Muse and Rev. 
Charles Sturtevant were received in November, 1866. Brother Smith 
withdrew after this. 

"Hence, the true report of this Presbytery for the year 1867 
should have read as follows: 



Ministers. 


Churches. 


Received 
by Exam. 


Received 
"by Letter. 


Total 
Corn's. 


s. s. 


George Miller. . 
George Frazer. 

Eben Muse 

C.Sturdevant,W.C. 


Pleasant Hill . . . 
Warrensburg .... 


11 


22 
27 
32 
18 


54 
32 
71 
18 


30 
55 
110 
40 






11 


99 


175 


235 



"This is all we got ; all else went South. 

"Our Presbytery obtained in the division one little building, one 
minister, one whole church at Warrensburg, of twenty-eight 
members, and twenty-one members at Pleasant Hill and only five mem- 
bers in Kansas City; in all fifty-four, out of 1,478 members we had at 
the beginning of the war. Sugar Creek, now known as Creighton, was 
our first new organization. 

"Note 4th. As we look at the 0. S. Assembly Minutes for 1869, 
we find the roll of Presbytery at last cleared of statistics that had not 
been revised since 1861. The Churches had increased from four to 
fourteen but two of these. Independence and Lexington, were in the 
spirit of fraternity soon dissolved; the membership had grown from 
175 to 573, two hundred of these received that year; and the four min- 
isters had become eleven. The warm-hearted and venerable brother, 
John Montgomery, D. D., did not go into the Southern Church until 
the year 1870. He had honest forebodings about reunion with the new 
School and that event decided his course. His name stood on our roll, 
but he never met with our side after 1861. 

"In all this will be clearly seen the causes of the slow growth of 



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our Church on our bounds. This State was born in strife and discord, 
and her life has been one of alienation. These ten years, from 1860 to 
1870, form the key to her history, all before points to it, all after radi- 
ates from it. It was over Missouri that the great battle over American 
slavery began in 1817. She was only permitted to come into the 
Union by a compromise, and her people have ever since been compelled 
to purchase peace by compromise. And when in 1854 ^The Missouri 
Compromise' was repealed, the act convulsed the nation, and made 
Missouri the objective point of a national strife that culminated in the 
Great Civil War. 

"Having been born of strife and reared on strife, located on the 
very border of alienation, it was not strange that her people should be 
more bitterly divided on the great issues of the war ; and in no portion 
more bitterly than in the territory covered by our Presbytery. The 
counties of Jackson, Cass, Bates and Vernon were literally desolated. 
Neighborhoods and even families were murderously hostile to each 
other ; ail civilized modes of warfare were discarded, and the two par- 
ties were only known as either 'Jayhawkers' or ^Bushwackers.^ 

"As I walked over one of the bloody battle-fields, caring for the 
wounded and dying, my companion in blue found his dead brother 
clothed in gray. On the same day a father in gray found his own son 
cold in death but clothed in blue. A mother often had sons in oppos- 
ing armies, and a wife's husband and brother oft thirsted for each 
other's blood. 0, the world will never know, history can never record 
a thousandth part of what that cruel war cost in sacrificed friendships 
and crucified loves along these ill-fated border lines. 

"As the inevitable consequence of all this, church organizations 
were torn to pieces, and all love and charity and piety were almost ex- 
tinguished from the hearts of men, women and even little children. 
Many left the State never to return ; many gave up forever all interest 
in religion ; large numbers drifted into other denominations in the des- 
perate hope of getting away from every reminder of the embittered 
past ; while a large per cent, of those that remained in their old rela- 
tions lost all interest in religious or church work. 

"The ill-savor attaching to the very name of our State has no 
doubt kept out of its bounds a large and most desirable class of immi- 
gration ; and more especially Presbyterians, who, shunning division 
and discord, have sought homes in other States ; and large numbers o'f 
those who flocked to the State from 1865 to 1872 and entered our 
churches, have moved further west in search of more congenial envir- 
onments. So fearfully has this operated that thirty-seven per cent of 
the church organizations on our roll in 1874 have [1888] entirely dis- 
appeared, or fourteen out of thirty-seven ; while nine more, though not 
extinct, have a smaller membership by 146 now than they had fourteen 
years ago. New organizations and growth in Kansas City and the 
larger towns have offset this loss. 

"A like change marks our roll of ministers. No Presbytery has ever 



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suffered more from an ever-changing ministry. Whether the ministry 
or the €onntry is at fault, we do not pretend to say; but the fact is 
alike, the sign of decay and a great hindrance to church growth. 
Names appear and disappear from our roll in rapid succession. For 
example, from 1872 to 1874, thirteen out of twenty-nine names disap- 
pear; from 1874 to 1877, fourteen out of twenty-six names disappear; 
and from 1877 to 1880, fourteen out of twenty-five names disappear. 
And of the twenty-six names we had in 1874, only six were on our roll 
in 1888, three' of whom had been a large part of the time connected 
with other Presbyteries. 

"The work done by our ministers and churches cannot be 
measured by apparent results; its influence permeates all the great 
West, and will impress the future of its untold millions. Others, un- 
used to hardship and warfare, will come in and reap the rich harvest of 
patient, painful sowing. The battles have been fought; the pioneer 
work has been done; the fields have been cleared, and the seed has been 
eown by sturdy hands and trustful hearts ; the harvest is the end of the 
world; the reapers will come forth; and for the garnered grain, we 
point you to our Father's House. 

''Dear brethren, inspired alike by the toils and triumphs of the 
past, and the rich dawning hopes of the future; inspired alike by the 
noble line of warriors who lie buried in the rear, and the blessing of 
God upon their labors and ours ; as we today keep step with the centen- 
nial march of Presbyterianism, let the rallying war cry rise and ring 
out all along the lines : Forward, March ! Forward, March ! I" 

NEAV SCHOOL AVORK AFTER THE CIVIL AVAR. 

The removal of slavery gave new life to the New School work in 
this Synod. The great immigration into this region from the North 
likewise invited a vigorous prosecution of the work. The Board of 
Home Missions had a supervision of the work here through its District 
Secretary (Synodical Missionary he would be called now), Dr. A. T. 
Norton. He was indefatigable in visitation and in getting men to take 
hold of the old fields and reorganize them, and also in making new or- 
ganizations where there seemed to be a promise of growth. Through 
his efforts the Presbytery of Lexington, which covered the northwest 
portion of the State, including a few counties south of the Missouri 
River, became very active. The Presbytery of Osage, which had be- 
come extinct before the War, had to be re-erected out of entirely new 
material. The principal organizers in Lexington Presbytery were E. 
B. Sherwood and S. G. Clark; and in Osage Presbytery, John M. 
Brown. In 1868 the work had so increased as to require the whole 
time of -a Secretary for the Synod of Missouri, and Dr. Timothy Hill 
was commissioned to undertake it. The result of all these efforts was 
very marked. The New School starting from nothing in this territory 
was able to bring to the Reunion about as much strength as was fur- 



AFTER THE REUNION. 



Ill 



nished by fne Old School. Since the Reunion there has never been the 
slightest trace visible of the old lines. 

THE PRESBYTERIES SINCE THE REUNION. 

At the first meeting of the Synod of Missouri after the Reunion, 
the State was redistricted so as to combine the Old School and the New 
School Presbyteries in each part of the State into new Presbyteries. 
The "Enabling Act" then passed defines our bounds as follows: 

''III. The Presbytery of Osage is hereby erected to consist of the 
Ministers and churches within the counties of Jackson, Lafayette, 
Saline, Cooper, Pettis, Johnson, Cass, Bates, St. Clair, Henry, Benton, 
Morgan, Moniteau, Cole and Miller. It shall meet m the church at 
Clinton of the 31st day of September, at half-past seven P. M., A. D., 
1870. The Rev. T. S. Reeve, or in his absence the oldest Minister pres- 
ent, shall preside until the election of a Moderator. And furthermore 
the Presbytery of Osage is hereby declared to be the proper and legal 
successor of the Presbyteries of Lafayette and Osage, and as such is 
■entitled to all the rights, franchises and possessions, and liable for the 
performance of all the duties of those Presbyteries." The Presbytery 
thus formed retained the same boundaries until in 1874, when Vernon 
County was added, transferred from the Presbytery of Ozark. In 
1884 the church of El Dorado Springs, in Cedar County, was also 
transferred from the Presbytery of Ozark to us. The name Osage was 
retained until the fall of 1887, when the Presbytery voted to be called 
after its principal city. 

The recent history is so fully given in the statistics and in the 
sketches that follow that there is need now of noticing but few of the 
many items that would otherwise be of interest. The history has been 
a harmonious one, characterized rather by quiet work than by sudden 
growth or other marked changes. Probably few Presbyteries have 
had less use for the "Judicial Committee," though the records are not 
-always free from their reports. None of the cases of discipline has 
led to the extreme punishment, and but few of them even to censure. 
Revivals have been numerous, but never widespread. In common with 
all this part of the country there have been years of want and years 
of plenty, which are as plainly traceable in the ecclesiastical as in the 
commercial world. Fields once promising have had to. be abandoned, 
even after years of faithful tilling. 

A sad tale would be told could we look into the books of the Board 
of the Church Erection Fund, that has been the warm friend in need 
and friend indeed of nearly every organization ever at work here. And 
yet though so many in their prosperity have forgotten their helper and 
others have returned to it property that did not realize nearly the face 
of the Board^s mortgage, most of our organizations are now both prop- 
erly housed and actively aggressive in their work. Fires and tornadoes 
have destroyed several of our churches, which were often not well in- 



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sured. The Missouri river has washed away two whole towns, churches- 
and all. 

None of our churches has been extravagant in its church buildings 
though several of the churches have had numerous houses of worship^ 
varying all the way from vacant store buildings, log churches and 
adobe nondescripts to the well appointed modern church, with various 
rooms, a fine pipe organ and a handsome parsonage adjoining. The 
number of such church buildings that has been lost by fire and by tor« 
nadoes is so great that fire and cyclone insurance agents have argu- 
ments ready made, (if they did but know the facts about this one Pres- 
bytery) that ought to give them no difficulty in securing business from 
every one of our congregations. 

Missouri, as a quondam slave State, is as of old the home of a 
large negro population, supposably more or less open to Presbyterian 
influences. This is especially true in the cities, though there is not 
anywhere among us even a small town without its ""Little Africa.^' 
Yet there never has been any systematic Presbyterian effort made to 
reach these people, and it is doubtful whether among us there are to- 
day nearly as many of them in any way under Presbyterian influences 
as there were in the old days of slavery. One negro Licentiate and 
one negro Minister have belonged to this Presbytery, but each of them 
came to it unsought, and departed without substantial encouragement 
to labor here. 

This Presbytery has always been a Home Mission field, every one 
of its churches having at some time received aid from the Board of 
Home Missions. Some of its churches have been large givers to the 
support of the gospel at home and abroad ; but none of them have given 
largely of their sons and daughters to Mission work. So far as known 
to the writer, no Foreign Missionarv has ever been sent out from any 
of our churches,* though ^several Missionaries are now and for years 
have been supported by their gifts. 

In the matter of educational institutions, this Presbytery, like 
tlie rest of this State, has been singularly unsuccessful. Not to mention 
the early private schools under the care of our Ministers or Elders or 
the ante-bellum Presbyterial academy, there have been since the war 
schools of some sort, under Presbyterian auspices (part of them under 
Presbyterial control), and ranging in grade all the way from private 
schools up to a "University,^^ in at least Butler, Clinton, Independ- 
ence, Sedalia, Tipton, and Westfield. With one exception, none of 
these are now under Presbyterian control, or even in existence, though 
some of them were for years the centers of large influence for good. 
The one exception is the Kansas City Ladies' College at Independence, 
which is now under the care of this Presbytery, the Rev. J. S. Dun- 

*The Rev. W. F. Shields and wife, of the Sharon church, were connected with 
the Wood River church. Neb., when commissioned to go to Siam. Miss Mary Clark, 
of Persia, (daughter of the Rev. S. G. Clark) was once a member of the Appleton 
City church. The Rev. Paul D. Bergen, of China, supplied the Fifth church of 
Kansas City for a little while ; S. A. Moffett, of Korea, that of Appleton City, 
and W. M. Baird, of Korea, that of Osceola. The Rev. Geo. W. Marshall, of China, is a 
graduate of Butler Academy. 



KANSAS CITY. 



iia 



ing, Ph. D., a member of the Presbytery, being its president. It has 
recently been reorganized, and seems to promise a bright future. 

The history of the Presbytery would be incomplete without a 
reference to the good work done by our Sabbath Schools, Endeavor 
Societies, Men^s Leases and Women^s Missionary Societies, all of 
which have been well organized and fairly active. It had been intended 
to have an article by one of the ladies on the Women's work, but none 
was sent in in time. 



SKETCHES OF MINISTERS. 



NOTE. The compiler originally intended to insert tliese sketches in chrono- 
logical order, arranged under the different Presbyteries. As there have been so many 
Presbyteries, however, and so many of the men noticed have been members of more 
than one of them, it seems best to insert the names alphabetically. All facts as to 
Presbyteral connection and service can be found in the foregoing chronological 
registers. 

None can be more conscious than the writer of the many defects in these 
sketches. Some men are, perhaps, not noticed at all, that are full as worthy a place 
as those that appear in the list. Others are given space disproportionately large or 
small. The best possible use. however, has been conscientiously made of the mater- 
ials at hand, after much careful and painstaking research, and a wide correspond- 
ence. No sketches are given of persons still members of the Presbytery. 

The greatest regret of the compiler is that there did not seem to be any way in 
which to give due recognition to the work of the members of the churches. In 
nearly every church there are doubtless (or have been) members, women as well as 
men, that have done more for the advancement of the cause of Christ in 
their community than any ministers their church has ever had. Such members 
are not to be forgotten, though their names cannot be mentioned here. They will 
ever remain fresh and fragrant in flie hearts of those that knew them, and should 
be enshrined in carefully prepared and carefully preserved histories of the several 
churches. That the necessary omissions in these sketches may lead to the prepara- 
tion and wide distribution of such a history of each church in the Presbytery is the 
■sincere desire of the writer of this History of the Presbytery of Kansas City. 



*'"There is, perhaps, nothing about which a good man may have so little solici- 
tude — nothing which, with so much safety, he may banish from the entire range 
of his thoughts — as his reputation ; his name while living, his memory when dead. 
Of character — what he is and what he ought to be — and how such character may be 
developed : in reference to these, much care and much labor may be employed, for 
here he is an important agent : but over his memory Providence asserts a juris- 
diction that is exclusive, and a jurisdiction so peculiar that, the more it is for- 
gotten by its subject, the more certainty will attach to the fact that it will be 
perpetuated." 

"Such a synopsis * * * must be brief, and by reason of its brevity, general- 
izing and condensing such eventful and protracted labors into so small a space, it 
will necessarily be devoid of that minuteness of detail and circumstantial incident 
which gives to' portraiture its life and power, and throws around it all that interest 
which is peculiarly its own. It is not that the subject of such a memoir was born 
at such a time, graduated at such an institution, was licensed to preach the Gospel 
by such a Presbytery, and for so long labored in such a church — it is not a general 
statement of items such as these that we either expect or desire in biography. These 
of themselves are the body without the soul. They are but the outer walls of the 
building : and if our object is to know its character, we are never satisfied without 
entering and surveying "its inner apartments. In biography we desire individuality ; 
and we wish the subject to be so presented to us that we can, under the given cir- 
cumstances, hear him speak, see him act, read his motives, and from these form our 
own judgment of his character, and be able to determine for ourselves how he would 
probably act under any other circumstances in which we may imagine him to be 
placed. This is the perfection of biography ; but it can never be attained without 
minuteness and fulness of detail. Such, however, is not our present purpose. It 
is our object merely to form a skeleton of dates and general labors, leaving to other 
"hands the more difficult and important work of clothing it with flesh and life, and 
"thus making it "a living soul." '" — Preshyterian Recorder, Nov., 1855, pp 153-^. 



POEM. 



IMPROMPTU POEM. 

BY THE KEY. H. D. GANSE, ». D. 

Read at the Semi-Centennial Celebration of 
the Synod of Missouri, 1882. 

The fathers sleep ; but to this hour 

The mighty shapes are here; 
Their old-time tones of truth and power 

Still thunder on the ear. 

'Neath lowly roof, in forest glade, 

And where, beside the flood, 
The young town teemed with noisy trade, 

They preached the truth of God, 

The church of logs is ci'umbled down, 

The forest camp is gone; 
But through the land their words have flown 

The living truth lives on. 

* «- 4;- r- -sf * 

Xay, 'tis not here they make their stay; 

We keep their memory bright ; 
But they are with their King today, 

The heroes walk in white. 

Heroes they were ; but in the van. 

The army follows on. 
.Look to your w^eapons, every man, 
_ This battle must be won. 

The field of fight grows thick with men : 

The scores become a host. 
But trust the Help they boasted then — 

Christ and the Holy Ghost. 

Through dreary days of shame and fear. 

This land hath waited long; 
The clouds are parting, and our ear 

Catches the heavenly song. 

^'0 Christ! the crown is on Thy brow; 

Thy mighty work is done ! 
Mortals who serve Him, serve Him now; 

His glory hasteth on!" 

Crowd on ! O march of years and men ; 

We'll meet you with God's Word : 
The fathers' rally rings again — 

"Missouri for the Lord!" 



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JOHN WORKMAN ALLEN. 

Though never a Pastor of any of our churches, Dr. Allen was for 
four 3^ears closely identified with nearly all the then churches of the 
Presbytery as Presbyterial Missionary, 1869-73, and for seven years 
more as Synodical Missionary, 1873-80. The acquaintance thus begun 
he kept up through the remainder of his life as Southwestern Superin- 
tendent for the Board of Publication and Sabbath School Work. For 
some years after his official duties took him to reside be3^ond our bound, 
he retained his membership in this Presbytery and was a frequent at- 
tendant at its meetinsfs. Genial and cordial in manner, quiet and 
direct in address, clear and positive in his thinking, he uniformly in- 
spired confidence in his humble piety, business sense and executive 
ability, and was welcomed as the counsellor of Ministers and churches. 

A subordinate yet important part of his work was that which for 
many years he carried on as Editor and Publisher of a church periodi- 
cal closely in touch with the interests of the Central West. It began, 
soon after he came to this state under the name of Our Church, wiiich 
was later changed to the St. Louis Evangelist; and then, after the 
consolidation with the Mid-Continent (originally published at Kansas 
City) it took the name of the latter periodical. He continued to pub- 
lish this paper until 1897, when it was consolidated with the Herald 
and Presbvter of Cincinnati. 

A notice prepared by the Committee on Necrology in the Synod 
says : "In addition to all these responsible functions. Dr. Allen did 
not fail to preach the Gospel as he had opportunity, and many missions 
and needy churches felt and still feel the inspiring uplift of his faith- 
ful ministrations. He was of course a very busy man, but never too 
busy to be genial and courteous to all with whom he came in contact. 
Few Ministers have been more widely esteemed and more sincerely 
mourned, when called away, than Dr. Allen. He was a patient sufferer 
for years; but his unfaltering trust was in his blessed Lord, and his 
end was peace.^^ 

"He died on Sabbath morning, Feb. 12, 1899, at the sanitarium in 
Martinsville, Indiana, whither he had been taken in search of the re- 
lief that came only in his death.^^ 



RICHARD H. ALLEN. 

The work of Dr. Allen, later known to the whole denomination 
through his connection with the Board of Missions for Freedom, was 
not extensive in this Presbytery. At the time he was taken under care 
of the Presbytery of Upper Missouri as a Candidate for the Gospel 
Ministry, May 29. 1846, he was a member of our church at Independ- 



WILSON ASDALE. 



ence. Later he was transferred as a Licentiate to the care of the 
Presbytery of Missouri, by whom he was ordained, June 27, 1847, and 
installed as Pastor of the church at Jefferson City. There he remained 
only two years. Though later acting as Evangelist in Upper Missouri 
Presbytery, his work was mainly confined to the northern part of that 
Presbytery, hence not within the present bounds of this Presbytery. 

Of his work in this State Nevin's Encyclopedia says : "Having an 
earnest desire to enter into the ^reat and destitute field around him, 
as an Evangelist, for which he was peculiarly fitted, he devoted himself 
to Home Mission work in the counties of Upper Missouri. He stopped 
not to consult with flesh and blood, nor to ask aid of any Missionary 
Board, but purchased a horse, filled one side of his saddle bags with 
Bibles and tracts, and started out as an Evangelist, preaching wherever 
God in His providence opened the way. In. this new and important 
field of operation, his labors were signally blest." 



WILSON ASDALE. 

For over nine years the Tipton church enjoyed the faithful 
ministrations of Wilson Asdale. Like so many others in this Pres- 
bytery, he spent the greater portion of his ministry among them as a 
Stated Supply, having been installed only during the last three years 
of his stay. A part of the time he served the High Point church also. 
No Minister in the Presbytery, while he was a member of it, was more 
earnest, persevering and conscientious in the discharge of his duties 
than he. Being naturally of a retiring and diffident disposition, 
others may have shone more brilliantly in the meetings of Presbytery, 
but none stood hig'her in the esteem of his brethren, and none had a 
firmer hold on the affections of his people. 

The difficulties of the field he served were not small, the numerical 
results not larsre : but no one can become familiar with the facts in 
such rases without seeing that it would be well for all our Ministers 
and churches if there were more cases of long pastorates. In many 
of the churches in this part of the country there is such a change in 
the population that at the end of ten years, and probably usually much 
sooner, a settled Pastor would have a largely different congregation 
from that to which he was originally called. Having the confidence 
of the older members, the new members would sooner find their places 
and appropriate work than if old members and new alike had to be- 
come familiar with a new Minister every two or three years. Those 
of our churches that have had the longer pastorates have, other things 
being equal, been most prospered and blessed with leadership in the 
true spiritual life of the communities where they are found. Would 
that more of our Ministers and churches might mutually bear and 



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forbear when they who have so far been blessed in their labors reach 
that dead center which seems to come inevitably in the course of from 
three to five years ! When by the grace of G-od that point is passed, 
a new era of helpful fellowship always opens before them for years to- 
come. 



WILLIAM MAETYN BAIED. 

The Presbyterv of Kansas City, itself the outgrowth of Foieiga 
Missions, has not been largely represented so far on the Foreign Mis^ 
sion field. There have however been several instances like that of Mr. 
Baird, where yonn^- men from the Seminaries have labored in our 
bounds for a few months or years, and then have gone to the foreign 
fields, though first transferring their membership to the Presbytery 
of their early church home. When the Eev. Dr. C. L. Thompson went 
east to attend the meetina' of the Centennial General Assembly, of 
which he was elected Moderator, his pulpit in the Second Church of 
Kansas City was left in charge of Mr. Baird, who had then just grad- 
uated from McCormick Seminary. As Dr. T. took a vacation about 
that time and at its close became Pastor of the Madison Avenue church 
in 'New York City, the Supply was continued for several months before 
a successor was chosen. After leaving the Second church, Mr. Baird 
supplied the Osceola church for a few months, and then a church in 
Colorado, before leaving for his chosen life work in Korea. Though 
unknown to the o:reat maiority of the members of this Presbytery and 
its churches, some of them have long thought of him as their repre- 
sentative in the great work of evangelizing the heathen, and a worthy 
representative he has proved. 



JOSEPH VA^^ HOEN BAEKS. 

A short, appreciative sketch of the work and worth of this early 
member of Osage Presbytery is given elsewhere in the letter from 
the Eev. G. W. Harlan, one of his contemporaries. From what we 
have been able to learn of him otherwise, we have no doubt the estimate 
there given is correct. To it nothing need be added, except to show 
by quotations from his own letters the sweet spirit of the man. Some 
may question the propriety of quoting from purely personal letters, 
written to a friend in times of division and general unrest in Church 
and State. We think, however, that the letters that follow, written to 
the Eev. Timothy Hill, then Secretary of the Missouri Home Mission- 
ary Society, show by their very informality and directness, better than 
could be shown in any other way, the exact state of feeling then preva- 
lent in this Presbytery. We trust we shall be pardoned for the inser- 
tion of the extracts given rather than for giving them paraphrased as a 



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matter of editorial statement. They throw a flood of light upon the 
transition period when the New School Synod of Missouri, like tho^e 
of nearly all the Slave States of that time, was virtually broken up and^ 
scattered into various other bodies. 

Writing from Warsaw under date of July 14, 1857, Mr. Barks 
says : "I hardly know how to answer your inquiries. The time inter- 
vening between the time of my return from Ohio [He had been a mem- 
ber of the N. S. General Assembly that met in Cleveland in May] and 
the 27th of August was so short that it was thought impossible to get 
our Presbytery together by a regularly called meeting. Hence Br. 
Morrison and myself concluded to invite so many of the brethren and 
churches to meet at Osceola on the 4th day of Aug., to consult and 
recommend what is best to be done, as can conveniently come. What 
will be done I have not any idea. I received a letter from Ark. Morri- 
son [Rev. A. W. Morrison, of Bentonville, Ark.,] by the same mail 
yours came. He says his church in Bentonville had a meeting and 
sustained the action of the Commissoners from the South. He thinks 
a convention is the thing needed^ The final resolution of his church 
is in these Avords : ^Resolved, that we recommend the Presbytery to . 
instruct their delegate to the Convention to unite in and advocate every 
prudent measure to secure a union between us and the 0. S. Pres. Ch.^ 
Bro. Levi Morrison, of Hickory Co., is opposed to union with Old S. 
I received today a letter from Bro. Smith. He is down upon the Con- 
vention at Washington, and thinks the Assembly did no more than 
the exigency of the case demanded, viz., to condemn the ultra-Southern 
view. He is gone mad, however, on the slavery question, and I do. 
not think he intends to remain long in this State. 

"I will now tell you how I feel, though I may not feel so after 
our meeting of the 4 Aug. I cannot, and will not, go North. I dislike 
to go for a Southern Assembly, because I doubt the possibility of secur- 
ing a number of sufficient strength and respectability to carry on church 
matters in a strictly pro-slavery organization. 2. * * * j dislike 
the Tro-'as much as the ^i^nti-.^ 3. Besides Mo. is not properly a 
Southern State. My own proclivities are toward an honorable reunion 
with Old-Schoolism. * * * I am not committed, however, anj^way, 
only to ask wisdom from God. It may be that an ^Independent^ posi- 
tion is the best. I have inclined that way. Still there are difficulties." 

Another letter, of Dec. 8, 1857, is delightfully informal and some- 
what amusingly clear as to the facts stated, all of which are valuable 
to a right understanding of the men and the times : "I now sit down 
to answer your inquiries, it being the only time I have had at command 
since your letter arrived. And, 1st, those who depend on H. M. aid in 
this Presbytery? To answer this question I refer you to our Minutes^ 
of the Assembly, all of our Ministers with the following exceptions, 
viz. : A. Jones, W. C. Requa, J. McMillan and your humble servant 
Brothers Jones and Requa sell pills for support. Br. McMillan teaclie^ 
the 3^oung idea to sliout for his iiog and hominy.^ As for myself, I 



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have been supported by my own people since the A. H. M. Soc. gave 
us Paddy^s hint. All the rest receive aid. 

"2. As to the source from whence Brethren expect aid, I reply : 
Mainly from the '^S. Aid Soc' As a matter of course the A. H. M. 
Soc. and also the Assembly's Com. have cut themselves off (?) from 
the privilege of preaching the gospel in the South. * * * 

"And now^ dear Br.^ with regard to that part of your letter relat- 
ing to our Synod and its present position and future prospects : I feel 
that duty prompts me to be frank. I remark therefore that I have no 
confidence in the present state of Independence of the Synod^ any 
farther than it may be used as a means to an end, that is a union with 
Old School. I am not even a son of a prophet, but I do not look for 
any more than one meeting more of our Synod. And as I was told 
by a good brother while on my way to the Cleveland Assembly last 
spring, ^Br. Barks, the great thing to be done at the Assembly is to 
divide,' so now I believe with regard to our Synod in Mo., the thing 
to he done is to unite with the Old School. If we can get all together, 
well; if not, we go by Presbyteries, either in whole or in part. This 
in my opinion is inevitable. Our churches will go, and many of our 
ministers will not stay behind. I would it were otherwise.''^ 

On Mar. 25, 1859, he wrote : "As I have been absent from the 
State almost ever since the meeting of the Synod, last fall, I am short 
of the kind of information which you desire me to communicate. I 
will, however, give thee such as I have. Osage Pres. cut loose from 
Synod last fall, as you probably know. The spring meeting has just 
closed ; but as I was unable to attend, I am not informed what action 
was taken. Still I can give you the status of most of our members : 
Harlan, Jones, Requa and myself are Old-School-bound. Shall all 
of us unite next fall with our churches. Morrison (L. R.), Ricketts, 
Taylor and McMillan are going with the name of Osage Presbytery 
to the United Synod. Morrison of Ark. — I am not posted as to his 
driftings. Smith stands ^neck and heels' for Cleveland. But I am 
told he is going to leave the State. 

"I am not at all surprised at your announcement of the St. Louis 
Pres. going North. Indeed, I can see no other home for you, and I 
think all should ^o to the place where they can do the most for God. 
This motive, I trust, is the leading one with us all. There are some 
things connected with every branch of the Pres. family now that are 
objectionable to me. I know of no home now, since '57, where I could 
feel at home in just the same sense that I felt before the Cleveland 
Assembly met. I think I can work for the Master better, however, in 
the 0. S. Assembly than I can in any other connection, and hence I 
go. I know I shall forfeit the good opinion of my former friends — 
or some of them at least — still I am looking not so much how I may 
please my fellow man as my Heavenly Father. I cheerfully accord the 
same motive to all who may act in a different direction from my own." 

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fied from his letters, was one of whom we are not surprised to know 
that his memory is still precious in the town and vicinity of Warsaw. 
After leaving there in 1863, he served other churches in this State and 
within the bonnds of this Presbytery, though in the Southern connec- 
tion, until his death among us not long since. It is a pleasure to aad 
a note from his son, the Rev. H. B. Barks, of Auxvasse, Mo., who says : 
"All of hi^ life he was a laborious worker. He loved the Church 
and souls with an absorbing passion. He was too retiring and modest 
for his own good ; and because he did not have a just estimate of his 
own powers, refused to undertake work, frequently, which, if he had 
done so, would have opened up to him greater fields of usefulness. He 
grew in grace rapidly, and — though he never lost interest is earthly 
things— the Church," the Country, his family and friends— with a 
growing spiritual vision he saw and became enamored of the things 
which are not seen. His death was a wonderful exhibition of trium- 
phant Grace. He was the comforter and we the comforted." 



SAMUEL BOOKSTAVER BELL, 

One of the most interesting and original of all the members this 
Presbytery has ever had was Dr. Bell. A captivating conversationalist, 
a fluent speaker, a strong reasoner, a loyal Presbyterian, he was pop- 
ular in the pulpit and out of it. Though an experienced traveler, an 
eloquent orator, a high Mason, a successful politician, educator and 
editor, he could say of himself : ^'One thing is absolutely certa'n — 
I have under all circumstances been laboring for the best interests of 
our most beloved Presbyterian church, always including, as first and 
foremost, the salvation of all souls." He was thoroughly familiar with 
all parts of our land, and a devoted patriot, never more at home than 
when making a patriotic address. An extended and valuable sketch 
of him in the U. S. Biographical Dictionary (Mo. volume, pp. 5463.) 
characteristically says : "Dr. Bell received the intelligence of the fall 
of Yicksburg while delivering the 4th of July oration at Jersey City 
in 1863 ; and was at first disposed to regard the telegram as too good 
to be true. But when convinced of the truth, he dipped his oratorical 
wings in fire and soared into patriotic flights of eloquence unequaled 
since the first immortal Fourth was born into the annals of historic 
days." 

We have not space to give as lengthy a sketch as we would like to 
insert, and cannot better summarize his life than in the words of the 
memorial spread upon the records of Presbytery, soon after his death : 

"Rev. Samuel Bookstaver Bell, D. D., died at Santa Barbara, Cal., 
Dec. 27, 1897, aged 80 years. He was born in Montgomery, Orange Co., 
!N". Y., Sept. 17, 1817. In his early manhood he entered upon the prac- 
tice of law in his native State ; but subsequently prepared himself for 
the Ministry and the preaching of the Grospel became his life work. In 

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1852 he located in California, where he became influential in the de- 
velopment of that new country. He established a school in Oakland 
which afterward became the University of California. He took a 
prominent part in the political activities of that State, served in both 
branches of the legislature, presided over the first Republican Conven- 
tion held in that State, and was a personal and intimate friend of 
President Lincoln during the Civil war. 

"He founded and became the first Pastor of the First Presbyterian 
church of Oakland, CaL, where is now one of the strongest organiza- 
tions in our denomination. After his return to his native State, he was 
the Pastor of several very influential churches, Lyons, N. Y., the Con- 
gregational church, Mansfie-d, Ohio, and the First Presbyterian church' 
Kansas City, Mo., being among the number. The last named was his 
last pastoral charge. During his last pastorate, he established the Mid- 
Continent, a weekly religious periodical which was subsequently merged 
into the St. Louis Evangelist, which afterward became a part of the 
Herald and Presbyter. After the sale of the Mid-Continent, he re- 
turned to California, where he continued to reside until he was called 
to his heavenly rest. 

"Dr. Bell possessed rare qualities. He was a man of fine personal 
appearance, endowed with great talents. In the pulpit he was forcible 
and magnetic. He gathered and held large audiences. His church 
always grew rapidly in membership. He was very kind in disposition; 
was animated by the noblest principles. He was never heard to say an 
unkind word, or even a word of criticism of any other Minister or any- 
one else. He would not suffer a word to be said in his hearing against 
a brother Minister. 

"He was married in 1845 to Miss Sophia Walworth, a member 
of Chancellor Walworth's family. Mrs. Bell and several sons and 
daughters, all grown, survive to mourn fhe loss of a husband and 
father whose career was one of honor and distinction.'^ 



WILLIAM GILMOEE BELL. 

No adequate sketch of this long-time Pastor of the church at 
BoonTille has come into the hand of the writer of these sketches. He 
is still remembered, however, by many that heard him preach in Boon- 
ville and others of our churches both before and after the Civil war. 
His was one of the longest pastorates in the history of the Presbyter}', 
1840-1854. After leaving Boonville church he organized IJnion 
church, in Cooper count}', 15 miles from Boonville, and supplied 
it for three years. He then went to Texas for two years, but returned 
to Boonville in 1862, and remained in the bounds of this Presbytery 
until 1870. During this period he preached in several of our churches 
not otherwise supplied. Like many others of our earlier preachers, 
lie organized a school of which he had charge in connection with his 



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pastoral work. His was a female seminary, which he kept up from 
1842 to 1858, in Boonville. 

After the war he identified himself with the Declaration and 
Testimony party, though later in Texas he was a member of the North- 
ern Synod, of which he was for a time Synodical Missionary. Upon 
his death in 1880 the Synod of Texas adopted a short memorial, saying 
among other things : "Our brother belonged to the old-style Minis- 
rei-s so rapidly passing away. His appearance as well as his method 
of treating truth had weight and dignity about it. He was a preacher 
whom all classes were glad to hear. Solemnity and impressiveness 
were in all his words. He exalted the sovereignty of God and all the 
grand old doctrines of grace which are so dear to the Presbyterian 
church. He made and kept many friends. Many of our Synod felt 
toward him as toward a father. * * * We bless God for the ac- 
quaintance and fellowship we had with him." 



THOMAS A. BEACKEN. 

Dr. Bracken began his Ministerial life here, having been ordained 
by the Presbytery of Upper Missouri Oct. 15, 1848, by whom he was 
also installed as Pastor of the Prairie Church, Lafayette county on the 
Saturday before the second Sabbath in December, 1849. He 
remained in charge of the Prairie and Hopewell churches until dis- 
missed by the Presbjrtery in order to take charge of the church of 
Independence. There he was Pastor from 1855 to the war, during 
which he went to Kentucky. 

Of him ISTevin's Encyclopaedia says: "Sprung from the Scotch- 
Irish stock. Dr. Bracken maintains their sturdy adhesion to the Con- 
fession of Faith and the Form of Government, and their repugnance 
to latitudinarianism in doctrine or laxity in morals. As a preacher 
he is scriptural, sound, very much in earnest, rightly di\T;ding the Word 
of Truth. As a Pastor he had the happy faculty of attaching his people 
warmly to himself." 



CHRISTOPHER BRADSHAW. 

Among the pioneer Ministers of Harmony Presbytery were several 
from East Tennessee, energetic, persevering, untiring in their minis- 
trations both in organized churches and in scattered communities 
They preached a great deal, traveled widely, scattered Bibles, organized 
churches, held camp meetings, and usually farmed a little. Their type 
is nearly extinct but was well defined and highly serviceable in its day. 
Among them were such men as the Morrisons, Taylor, Emerson, Ren- 
shaw, Ryland, Noel, Ricketts, McMillan, Bradshaw and others. Most 
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hand for sketches of the majority of them. As a typical example it may 
be interesting now to notice a few facts concerning the Rev. Christo- 
pher Bradshaw, gleaned from a variety of sources. No soit of a full 
sketch of him has been found. 

In the absence of the records of the Harmony Presbytery, it is 
not known just when he came to this State. The earliest notice so far 
discovered is that he was commissioned by the A. H. M. S. for Salem, 
Warsaw and Post Oak, Sept. 5, 1844. He attended the meeting of the 
N. S. Synod of Missouri, for the first time, in Oct. 1844. He seems 
to have lived at Salem, Henry Co. Probably he had at that early date 
begun to labor as a later commission authorized him to do "among 
the destitutions of the Presbytery^^ at varous points not at once organ- 
ized into churches. Post Oak was not organized until 1846. Warrens- 
burg, where he preached as early as 1847 was not organized until 1852. 
Among his reports published in the Home Missionary is one (Sept. 
1846, p. 104) in which he says: 

"Our Presbytery held its spring sessions, including the third 
Sabbath of March, on the Little Osage, Bates County [which then 
included Yernon Co.], in Brother Dodge's church. We had an inter- 
esting meeting, and some evidence of the presence of the Spirit of 
Grod, attending a preached Word. On my return home, I recaived a 
letter from a commission merchant at Boonville saying that they had 
a box subject to my order. It contained some articles of clothing for 
my family, sent from St. Louis, and six Sabbath school libraries, sent 
as a donation from the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society to the 
far West. Since the reception of those libraries, I have organized six 
Sabbath schools, in places where there had never been any schools 
before. In organizing these schools I rode more than 2000 miles. My 
last two months have been a busy season. I preach seventeen times in 
the month. But I esteem it a great privilege to finish the evening of 
my life in my Master's vineyard, especially in feeding the lambs." 

He was then past sixfy years of age, but continued vigorous and 
hearty in regular work for many years after that, down to his death 
in 1860. An interesting incident concerning him, at about this period 
of life, appears in reminiscences of Dr. John Leighton at the semi- 
centennial of the Synod of Missouri. In describing the meeting of 
Bynod held in Mr. Bradshaw's church at Salem, J.n 1845, Dr. Leighton 
says : 

"This roughness of material things, as may be supposed, opened 
the way to a corresponding freedom in the acts of worship — an uncon- 
straint which would now be called ^free and easy.' While there were 
far more spirit and devotion in the singing than we now witness, it 
was loud and discharged from all scientific exactness. Sometimes the 
tune would seem to be an impromptu composition. Numbers of the 
airs and hymns sung at the campmeeting were of the popular Metho- 
dist style. Dr. David Nelson, Rev. James Gallaher and some others 
had the voice of a silver trumpet- — strong and mellow, and the first 



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named especially would occasionally come in where no hymn was ex- 
pected with a solo that would move the heart and start the tears. As 
for musical instruments, I cannot say there was the least prejudice 
against them; but for the reason there was no occasioij for prejudice, 
instruments being universally unknown and undesired. 

"Accompanying the singing, particularly on the great state oc- 
casions, there was the exercise of handshaking, though this was not 
common. The custom seems to have been brought in by good brethren 
from Tennessee who had a number of ways peculiar to them and not 
laid down in the book. These brethren formed quite an element in our 
churches in Missouri, chief of whom were Dr. Nelson and the Clallaher 
brothers. In the year 1845 I attended the New School Synod which 
met somewhere in the woods in Henry .County, having consumed near- 
ly four days in reaching the place from Palmyra. The meeting was 
held in the basilica, as we may call the large shed. And let it be said, 
our meetings of Presbytery and Synod were then far more popular and 
devotional than at present. There was not much business to attend to, 
and there was preaching twice or three times a day; and this brought 
out all our people and a great many besides. On the occasion I speak 
of, there came up a storm one afternoon, which drove us to what was 
called "the church," a log house such as I have described, having one 
opening for a window, but no glass. The pious company were stand- 
ing up and singing, when suddenly a movement was made which was 
novel to me. Across the floor from where I stood and near the open 
door, was Father Bradshaw, the Pastor of the church. While singing 
with much spirit he advanced and took the hand of a brother and shook 
it with vigor. Thought I, 'This is a brother the Pastor has not 
chanced to see during the meeting, and he takes the liberty of greeting 
him in the midst of the devotions.^ Presently he advances and shakes 
the hand of a second stranger. 'And here is another,' I said to my- 
self,' he has not met before.^ And not till he had approached a third 
and fourth did the truth burst on my mind. When I saw the good 
Pastor advancing to my part of the room, I stiffly turned my face to 
the log wall, expecting that he would pass me by. In this I was dis- 
appointed. He laid hold upon my shoulder and gave me a violent pull 
around and then took me vigorously by the hand, a Christian honor 
^vhich. I neither understood nor deserved." Other equally interesting 
incidents of that meeting of the Synod are related in the same place. 
His whole paper on "Primitive Presbyterianism in Missouri" is exceed- 
ingly readable and graphic. 

In the fall of 1846 Mr. Bradshaw wrote of the loss of his wife, his 
companion for nearly forty years, and then reported the religious con- 
dition of his field. He spoke of a "refreshing season" at a camp meet- 
ing he had held with Mr. Dodge at Little Osage, and then of a meeting 
of Presbytery which "was very refreshing to the brethren who ordi- 
narily meet but twice a year ; and it was made a good meeting to the 
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Presbytery nowadays ! He continued : "In reviewing the year that is 
past I have reason to speak of nothing but mercy and goodness. I 
have been enabled to preach more than two hundred sermons and visit 
more than that number of famihes. I have never come to the close of 
any former year with more strength and comfort than the past. I 
thank God for health and strength and the opportunity to labor one 
more year in His vineyard.^' The next year he is reported to have had 
a parish covering the counties of Henry, Johnson, Benton and Pettis. 
An additional note says : "This service allows him but three or four 
days in a month to rest and for reading and writing ; all the remainder 
is taken up in riding, visiting families and preaching. Often in the win- 
ter he has met the people at different points on his route and preached 
to them in the evening in such groups as could be gathered in private 
houses.^^ 

At some time after the death of Mr. Dodge (1848), Mr. Bradshaw 
became the supply of the Little Osage Church, where he remained the 
rest of his life, supplying also the Marmiton Church. There he died 
and was buried in May, 1860. By some still living he is remembfire<3 
as "an excellent, man and a very good preacher .^^ 



WILLIAM LEWIS BRECKENEIDGE. 

During the short time that Dr. Breckenridge was a member of this 
Presbytery he was greatly beloved, and, though nominally retired to his 
farm, he did good work in several of our churches, especially those of 
Pleasant Hill and Raymore. He was an earnest advocate of Old 
School principles that protested against Reunion ; yet entered heartily 
into the work of the united Church, where he soon felt at home. 

The following estimate of his character is quoted by Nevin's En- 
cyclopaedia from the pen of his life-long friend, Rev. Dr. Edward P. 
Humphrey : "The grace of God which took possession of his mind and 
heart when about fifteen years old gave sweetness and dignity to his 
elevated nature, true love to Christ andto the souls of men, together with 
a spirit of self-sacrifice and of unquestioning obedience to God. As a 
preacher he was instructive, lucid and thoroughly evangelical. He had 
a clear conception, and intelligent and experimental knowledge of the 
Gospel, and expounded the saving truths with great simplicity, and 
often with an earnestness, a pathos, a persuasive power, that brought 
his hearers into captivity to the obedience of Christ. And then a cer- 
tain propulsive power was imparted to his discourses by his manliness, 
his moral and physical courage, his profound conviction of the truth 
and glory of the Gospel, and by the unspotted purity of his life. His 
character came with him into the pulpit; it robed his person with 
honor when he walked through the streets. What men thought of him 
strengthened all our Ministers of every church in the confidence of the 
community. 



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"Few men have been so diligent and useful in pastoral visitation. 
His fine social qualities, his ready, even spontaneous, sympathy, his 
sense of propriety and delicacy, made him welcome always to the fam- 
ilies of his congregation. The sick and dying and the bereaved turned 
to him as at once a learner and a teacher in the school of Christ, the 
Consoler. His labors as a Pastor were the most prominent, and as he 
thought, the most fruitful branch of his ministry. Through these la- 
bors he reached a place in the love of the people which has not been 
often attained in our generation. 

"In the Presbyterian Church at large he was a wise and trusted 
counsellor. He loved the Church; he consecrated himself, body and 
spirit, down to the end of his days, to its welfare. His brethren 
throughout the land committed to him the most sacred trusts, and they 
bestowed on him the highest honors of the profession.'' He was Mod- 
erator of the General Assembly, Old School, in 1859, at Indianapolis. 

Dr. George Miller, who knew him well, wrote of Dr. Brecken- 
ridge as "that noble type of a true Christian gentleman. We knew him 
not in his meridian splendor, but in the evening of a day adorned with 
great wisdom, worth and usefulness ; but Oh ! how much of sweetness, 
brightness, ^ood cheer and heavenly joy in those closing hours of a 
truly beautiful life 



JOHX M. BROWN. 

The man who at the close of the Civil War was sent by District 
Secretary ^sTorton to be one of the reorganizers of the Presbytery of 
Osage, was the Rev. John M. Brown. He soon made his influence 
widely felt. He was a son of the Rev.Amos P.Brown, who was for many 
years a missionary in New York, Missouri and Illinois. He did more 
than any other one man of the field work, resulting in the re-establish- 
ment of our Church in the Presbyteries of Osage and Ozark. Coming 
to his field soon after he had finished his service in the Union army, he 
arrived in Warsaw early in December, 1865. Before he had been there 
a week he wrote Dr. Norton an account of what he had found in the 
Churches of Warsaw and North Prairie, twenty miles south, which 
were to be his immediate field, and of his trip to visit the Cave Spring 
(Walnut Grove) Church. Of that first exploring trip he wrote: "I 
have had a very hard but very pleasant and encouraging trip. I was 
compelled to travel sixty miles on foot, often in mud and rain, with 
pack on my back, soldier fashion. Hope to have it easier now, as I 
have a horse." 

The next month he wrote (Jan. 18, 1866) : "These desolations 
cannot be restored unless we have help. We are straining every nerve 
— traveling in all kinds of weather and over all kinds of roads for long 
distances — preaching on the Sabbath, visiting and talking all the week; 
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and yet we fall far behind the needs of our field ***** 
cuit (jnst marked over and enlarged) measures more than two 
hundred miles around ; and this must be traveled at least once in four 
weeks — sometimes once in two weeks — and this not by railroad, but on 
horseback or in a buggy. This is too much labor for frail mortality, 
this cold, stormy, winter weather. Then we cannot half finish our 
work. About all we can do is to say ^Grood morning' to a Church and 
then ^Good-bye.' These hurried visits, as you well know, are not the 
way to build up Presbyterian Churches. I believe our labors will bj 
largely lost unless we can have help. Can you not send on a man im- 
mediately ?***** As I said in a previous letter, now is 
the time to strike in this region ***** J^ext week I expect 
to start on a trip west, as far as Fort Scott, Kansas.'' 

A month later he tells of having, since his last letter, organized 
a church at Clinton, and received into the Presbtery the churches of 
Warsaw and Mt. Zion, that had been compelled to leave the Xew 
School body before the war, when the Presbytery of Osage was virtu- 
ally dissolved. Arrangements were made on that trip to build a house 
of worship at Clinton, and to repair that at Warsaw. He had arranged 
to move to the Mt. Zion church and made that his headquarters there- 
after. Very naturally he appealed for more men. ^'What about these 
twenty counties in my field? It seems to me this matter is getting 
rather serious. And we don't want any but first-rate men, men of good 
natural abilities, of apostolic zeal and large discretion, men that are 
not afraid of self-denial and hard work, men that expect to succeed. 
And such men will succeed! Large patience too is necessary. The 
work is not to be accomplished by stonn. The labor is with individ- 
uals, as well as communities. And these individuals are not all living 
side by side in nice little towns, with dry, clean side walks ; but they 
are scattered all over the country. In one church which I have ex- 
plored, the mem'bers are spread over territory fifteen miles square. I 
have visited all but three members, and spent from three to twenty- 
four hours with each family. This is immense labor; but the work 
cannot be well done in any other way. But I need not tell you these 
things ; for you know all about it by experience. But, can't you hurry 
on that man ?" 

Other letters show the same indefatigable worker. In Oct., 1867, 
Dr. Norton wrote of him : "This brother is performing a great work 
here, and all through Southwest Missouri. His labors are incessant. 
One-half of his Sabbaths he spends with Mt. Zion church, one Sabbath 
in the month with the Springfield church, and one Sabbath with the 
new church at Osceola, fifty miles north ; he makes also long tours in 
various directions. Besides he is the chief planner of the new church 
edifice, and the chief executive officer in getting it forward. At the 
same time he is building a house for himself in which in its unfinished 
state, he entertained, during the whole meeting, all the Ministers of 
the Presbyterv, with the wives and children of two of them. Let our 



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churches, not complain of supporting on the Missionary field such 
laborers as this." 

One more quotation, from a letter written to Sjnodical Mission- 
ary Timothy Hill, Dec. 31, 1868, shows that, though a resident of what 
is now Ozark Presbytery, he kept up with the advancement of the 
whole Presbytery, some idea of whose extent may be gained from his 
description of his labors. "You ask about my field. Well, it is 160 
miles long and 100 miles wide. Thus you see ^no pent-up Utica' re- 
strains my powers. I preach three-fourths of my time to two churches ; 
the remaining one fourth, I skim over my field, looking up Presbyter- 
ian members, preaching, and organizing churches. Bro. Matthews, a 
Licentiate of our Presbytery, is my only assistant. * * * Last week I 
returned from a two weeks^ trip to the eastern part of my field. 
Traveled on horse-back; reached a point 120 miles away from home; 
rode 300 miles; preached eight times; administered the Sacrament, 
and received several members into our little church at White Rock 
(Texas Co.) ; explored Howell county, found Presbyterians to consti- 
tute a church; and heard of several other points waiting for a Minis- 
ter to visit them. Bro. Matthews was with me. One of the points 
named above is Lebanon, a growing town on the Southwest railroad. 
I expect to visit this place in Jan., and hope to organize a church soon. 
They are crowding this Southwest railroad through; and in less than 
two years there will be a dozen stations needing attention. * * * Of 
course our little field will then become a big field. Where are we to 
find the men to enter in and possess this land? In the western part 
of my field are the counties of Vernon, Barton, Dade, Cedar and Polk, 
without a single Presbyterian church ; but there are Presbyterian fam- 
ilies scattered over them; and churches might be organized, had we 
the men to do the work. But as we have not a single ^good, easy^ place 
I fear the men will be slow in coming. * * * Kow, Bro. Hill, if you 
will visit us this winter or spring, I will furnsh conveyance, and we 
will go together across this wide field. * * * I will meet you at But- 
ler or Clinton." [As there were no railroads then to use on this trip, 
the full import of this simple proposition, which, by the way, was ac- 
cepted, can be appreciated only by a study of the map.] 

"As to a box of clothing," he continues, "one in the spring would 
not come amiss ; but I could hardly ask it, as we received a box of sec- 
ond hand clothing in Sept.,which will help us through the winter. And 
yet, if the truth must be told, we do need such aid, for within fifteen 
months I have given three hundred dollars to build churches, help poor 
students and the cause generally. This has drawn so heavily on my 
salary of $900 that I find it very diflBcult to support my family of eight 
on the remainder. With this statement I will leave the matter alto- 
gether with you." [Perhaps the foregoing paragraph is of such a 
private nature that it ought not to see the light, at least when the name 
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self-sacrifice so conunon among Home Missionaries, especially those 
on the frontier. Their labors and their privations are rarely under- 
stood, even by their more fortunate brethren in the Ministry.] 



CHAELES H. BEUCE. 

A short sketch of this brother appears in the Presbyterian Maga- 
zine, Apr., 1896, p. 33 : "Eev. Charles H. Bruce, D. D. is a native of 
Beaver county, Pa. He is a graduate of Meadville (Pa.) College, class 
of 1879, of which he was valedictorian, and a graduate of Allegheny 
Theological Seminary. His first ministerial work was as a Home 
Missionary in Iowa, where he labored nearly four years. At Guthrie 
Center, (Iowa), during his pastorate a neat and comfortable church 
building was erected. In 1885 he was Pastor of the church at Union 
City, Pa., where he remained two years; and on Feb. 25, 1887, he began 
his pastorate in Kansas City. In the early months of his present 
charge the church assumed self-support. This has been Dr. Bruce's 
longest pastorate and excepting the Eoman Catholic and Episcopal 
Pastors, there are only three Ministers in the city who exceed him in 
the length of their pastorates. In 1893 he was Moderator of the Synod 
of Missouri. The decree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon 
him by his Alma Mater in 1895.'' 

The pastorate of Dr. Bruce in the Fifth church of Kansas City 
was the second longest in the history of the Presbytery as now organ- 
ized. Possibly we ought to call it the longest, inasmuch as the one that 
appears on the records of Presbytery as the longest was entered upon 
at once after the coming of the Pastor to take charge of the pulpit, 
whereas Dr. Bruce was in charge of the Fifth church several months 
before he was installed. Ten years may seem an unusually short pas- 
torate in some Presbyteries; but other Western Presbyteries will usu- 
ally show much the same facts as to the length of pastorate that are 
shown in this Presbytery. It is an honor to any man to hold a pastor- 
ate for ten years in any of our growing and rapidly changing Western 
cities. 'No man with less ability, common sense and spirituality than 
Dr. Bruce has, could have held the difficult position he held for any-, 
thing like as long as he did. Notwithstanding all the removals occa- 
sioned by the ordinary shifting of a city population and by the occur- 
rence during this pastorate of the worst season of business depression 
ever known in the West, there were at the close of this period nearly two 
and a half times as many members on the church roll as at its begin- 
ning. The church and its Pastor were among the most influential and 
respected in the city. Dr. Bruce was President of the Ministers^ Alli- 
ance of Kansas City, and also of the Presbyterian Alliance, of which he 
was one of the founders and chief promoters. He was one of the most 
faithful and efficient members of Presbytery and Synod, by both of 
which he was honored by election to their highest offices and important 



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conimittees. He was a good preacher, a valuable counsellor, a genial 
companion, a Christian gentleman, whose departure from the city and 
the Presbytery was much regretted by his many acquaintances in and 
out of his own parish. 



JAMES F. BRUNER. 

It is rarely that one who in early life wished to enter the Ministry 
but was then prevented does enter it later in life. After graduating 
at Hanover College, Indiana, in 1840, Dr. Bruner began the study of 
theology at New Albany Seminary (now McCormick) ; but was com- 
pelled to give up the Ministry on account of throat disease. He then 
studied medicine and became a successful practitioner for many years. 
During this time he was elected Ruling Elder in one of the churches 
of what is now Platte Presbytery. As his throat finally became better, 
he studied theology privately, and frequently exercised his gifts in 
neighboring churches. While still continuing the practice of medicine, 
he was in 1858 chosen Vice-President of Pleasant Ridge College. 
While there he nreached every Sabbath. During the war he was a 
Surgeon in the U. S. army, and was called "the Preaching Surgeon." 

"In the spring of 1874," he writes, "without any solicitation what- 
ever on my part, Osage Presbytery (now Kansas City) decided unani- 
mously it was my duty to be regularly licensed. Examination immedi- 
ately followed. Preached that night, and was licensed; and then 
ordained at the fall meeting." That was a pretty summary process; 
but it resulted in good work in the Salt Springs and Malta Bend 
churches, the latter of which he organized. After three years on that 
field, he was dismissed to the Presbytery of Trinity, Texas, where he 
remained six years, and then returned to this Presbytery. 



JOSEPH HARTSEL BYERS. ^ * 

At different times Mr. Byers was the Supply of five of the 
churches of this Presbytery in all of which he labored hard and faith- 
fully with a fair degree of success. Through evangelistic services his 
influence was strongly felt for good in at least as many more. Coming 
to this Presbytery after a short pastorate in Kentucky, he threw into 
his work here all the vigor and enthusiasm of his young manhood, 
and had a prominent part in the stirring times and scenes accompany- 
ing the reorganization, extension and reunion of Presbyterian work in 
the Presbytery now known as that of Kansas City. His first field of 
labor amon^ us was Creighton and Knobnoster, where he remained 
from 1867-70. He then took charge of the Third church in Kansas 
City, for one year, and of Lexington for three years, until his removal 
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Stated Clerk of the Presbytery of Osage. Returning in 1877, he began 
work that fall in N'evada, Mo., where he organized the church the fol- 
lowing February, and remained two years. 

An obituary notice of him truly says : "Obeying the promptings 
of a Missionary spirit he, with his young wife and infant son,, went to 
the prairies of the West, working under the Home Mission Board in 
the States of Missouri, California, Nevada, Kansas and Illinois. For 
35 years he ceased not to proclaim the everlasting Gospel, adding to 
the church by profession and by certificate 1085 persons, organizing 
six churches, dedicating nine church houses, and delivering 4741 ser- 
mons, besides Bible readings, lectures, etc. He took special delight 
in holding evangelistic services, often giving 25 or 30 sermons con- 
secutively, night after night, with an abundant harvest and feast of 
ingathering.^^ 



HENRY MARTYIST CAMPBELL. 

Mr. Campbells stay in this Presbytery was short, but long enough 
to make his influence felt in the congregation he served, and to win the 
confidence and esteem of his fellow-laborers in the Presbytery. Com- 
ing to us after bein^: out of the Seminary but a year, he took hold of 
a difficult field in the eastern edge of Kansas City, to which the Fourth 
church, originally located on the west side of the city had but recent- 
ly been transferred. The location of the building was by many 
thought to be unfavorable and the times unpropitious to the sustaining 
of any enterprise not already thoroughly established. Still the work 
was blessed. The church grew slowly, but the Pastor was evidently do- 
ing such faithful and efficient work that when there was a vacancy in 
a similar though much more promising field in St. Louis, he was called 
to take charge of it. There the lessons he had learned here and the 
ability he had shown led to immediate and large results in the Cote 
Brilliant church. During the two years he spent in this Presbytery 
he was honored by election to its moderatorship and to a place on its 
permanent Committee on Home Missions. 



HIRAM CHAMBERLAIN. 

An extended sketch of the Rev. Hiram Chamberlain appeared in 
the Presbyterian Recorder for Feb., 1856, p. 215-222, from which we 
have made a quotation in the sketch of the Boonville church. Aside 
from the facts that appear elsewhere under the tabular history, the 
sketch shows that Mr. Chamberlain received his first commission to 
labor in Missouri from the United Domestic Missionary Society in 
October, 1825. He was granted the usual outfit of $100 to defray his 
traveling expenses to his field of labor, and expected to get at least the 



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greater part of his salary from the church he might find desirous of 
his services. 

"He arrived in St. Louis January 8, 1826, where he remained 
until autumn, when he left and spent the winter at the Dardenne in 
St. Charles county. * * * He remained at the Dardenne but a short 
time, as we find him reported in Oct., 1827, at the Jefferson Barracks, 
and no longer receiving aid from the Society." While there he was 
Chaplain in the army. "In the spring of the following year he re- 
turned East, and began to act as the agent of the A. H. M. S., princi- 
pally in the eastern part of New York. This agency was not continued 
long, for we find him again in this State in December following, com- 
missioned as an agent for Missouri. * * * 

"Soon after his return he went to Franklin in Howard county, 
on the Missouri river, opposite Boonville, and located there. He was 
then far in advance of any other- man. * * * We soon find Mr. C. 
across the river, stationed at Boonville, and the church which was or- 
ganized at Franklin is changed to Boonville. While at Boonville he 
seems to have led the usual life of a Missionary, as he speaks from time 
to time of additions to his church, of organizing Sabbath schools and 
commencing a course of weekly lectures, etc. During all his residence 
here he was a frontier Missionary, 'standing alone, in advance of every 
Presbyterian clergyman in the land, with eight counties around him, 
some of whose inhabitants frequently called, and called in vain for 
help.'" * * * 

The extreme character of his position is seen in one of his letters 
describing a visit to the neighboring town of Liberty in Clay county. 
He wrote: "To my surprise when I arrived at Liberty, a small but 
flourishing town near the territory, [i. e., the Indian Territory, now 
the State of Kansas], I was requested to form a Presbyterian church. 
Want of time prevented me from complying with the request, but I 
was assured that 15 or 20 communicants could be collected for that pur- 
pose. Such facts exist on the frontiers of Missouri, while at Franklin 
is the most western Presbyterian church organized. In going and 
returning, I traveled between 200 and 300 miles, preaching the Sospel 
almost daily, and often was I told had preached the first Presbyterian 
sermon ever heard in that region. I was received with kindness and 
heard with interest; and on the very borders of civilization I found 
intelligence and refinement. A Missionary is wanted at Liberty this 
very hour; there are some Christians there who desire it. There is a 
military post near it in this territory. Several tribes of half civilized 
Indians have been sent into the neighborhood by the G-overnment; 
they occupy small portions of the territory, and must cultivate theii 
lands or starve. The man who goes there may benefit future genera- 
fibns of red men and white men. The place is healthy, the land is rich 
and the people are intelligent." Where are those red men now? 

♦Those who care to know something of the later life of this pioneer and of his 
change from the New School to the Old School church may find it in the sketch 
referred to. 



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WILLIAM MAXEN CHEEVEE. 

Probably no man that ever preached in this Presbytery ever 
exerted a more abiding influence over his own people or a wider in- 
fluence over the community in which he lived than Mr. Cheever. His 
daily life was a continual witness for Christ, his herioc sufferings and 
death the most eloquent and effective sermon he ever preached. No 
sketch confined to the narrow limits at our disposal could do the sub- 
ject justice. Much might easily be written years after his death by 
one that never saw him, but no pen but that of a loving contemporary 
and brother Minister could write adequately of his inner life and true 
Christian character. Hence, though it has not been our aim to quote 
much from funeral discourses, this sketch will be best confined to the 
words uttered at the time of the death of Mr. Cheever by those that 
knew him best from long and intimate acquaintance. As the death 
had not come unexpectedly, both the funeral remarks and the later 
memorial address were the well-weighed and deliberate estimates of 
these that had the best right to leave on record tributes to his memory. 
They were published at the time in pamphlet form. We can give only 
extracts. 

The Eev. J. G. Roberts, Pastor of the First Congregational church, 
Kansas City, aaid of Mr. Cheever's character: ^^A passage of Scrip- 
ture * * * has been haunting my mind ever since I heard that he was 
dead : '^The memory of the just is blessed.' I believe that our brother 
has left a memory behind which will long continue green and fragrant 
and beautiful. First — he was remarable for his geniality. It would 
be difficult to find a more thoroughly genial man; always cheery and 
sprightly, with nothing gloomy or morose about him. * * * Second — 
he was a very hopeful man; he had no dark and desponding views of 
human nature. Others might think that the world was growing worse 
and worse ; that society was tumbling to rack and ruin ; our Brother 
Cheever took a hopeful view of the world, mankind, society and the 
church; he had faith in man, in the truth and in God's redeeming 
power. * * * Third — he w^s a progressive man. * * * Altho loyal 
to the old Truth, he welcomed the new. Thoroly evangelical in his 
views, he still believed that God had new Truth to break forth both out 
of the book of Nature and the book of Revelation. His efforts were 
not to intensify the conflict between Science and Religion, but to bring 
all Truth into harmony; thus he combined a wise conservatism with 
intelligent progress. Fourth — he was a sympathetic man; men in 
trouble and distress found in him a ready helper; people in affliction 
sought him for comfort and consolation, and they did not seek in vain. 
I have heard the most fallen say: ^If ever there were a true Chris- 
tian, Mr. Cheever was one.' Altho the firm friend of the struggling, 
faint and fallen, yet his insight into human nature saved him from 
being imposed upon. Fifth — he was always ready to help in every good 
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man in view, we could always depend on him, and when he took hold 
of anything, we knew he would stand by it to the end. Whoever else 
might fail, it was certain that he would not. He loved men, and the 
great aspiration of his life was to raise them from their fallen condi- 
tion and to bring them into fellowship with Christ. Sixth — he was 
a heroic man. I doubt if ever, during all his prosperous Ministry, he 
preached so eloquently as he has done since his last sickness. He has 
made a deep impression upon a class which he never reached before. 
I tell you, when a man will endure with calmness and heroism such 
terrible surgical operations as our brother has done, and when they 
were found to be unavailing, will sweetly and cheerfully .esign himself 
to the will of God, it is simply sublime. The unanimous verdict of 
saint and sinner is : Servmit of God, well done!" 

One week after Mr. Cheever's death, a memorial discourse was 
preached by the Rev. Timothy Hill, D. D., who said, in part : 

"We would pass in a brief review the life he has lived, the work 
he has done, that we may rightly understand the character he possessed 
and the things he accomplished. 

" * * * His father was a man of education and culture who was 
engaged in the business of teaching. He was evidently a man of 
marked character, and he exerted an abiding influence over the char- 
acter of his son. Mr. Cheever often spoke of his father in terms of 
more than ordinary respect and honor. He seems to have been a com- 
panion of his father, and deeply interested in all that interested him. 
His father removed to South Hanover, (Ind.), in 1826, and opened a 
flourishing school there. Soon after the family removed to Hanover, 
the Latin school which finally grew into Hanover College began, and 
young William was a student there, though but nine years of age. He 
was ever fond of study, and continued in school until his father, fear- 
ing its influence upon his health, took him from the school and put 
him to outdoor occupation for a few years. 

"Piety in youth is often associated with beautiful Christian char- 
acter, and one so carefully trained is not likely to have been indifferent 
to religious feeling while quite young, but what were his first positive 
religious convictions, we have no means of knowing. We only know 
that he was carefully instructed in all the doctrines of the Gospel by 
that father whom he so much loved. Among the books which he read 
in youth is that wonderful book of Calvinistic theology, Bunyan^s Pil- 
grim. To him it was almost like the Bible. The study of that book 
with its pure Saxon English, doubtless had much to do with his own 
style of writing and speech. But if we do not know what was the ex- 
act state of his religious character in his childhood and youth, we know 
when he clearly consecrated himself to God, and began the full Chris- 
tian life. It was when he was 14 years old, and was in connection 
with a camp meeting held near Paris, Ind., in August, 1832. Meet- 
ings of that kind were then frequent, and perhaps quite as often con- 
ducted by Presbyterians as others. We have a full description of one 



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of those meetings and of the influence exerted on Mr. Cheever, written 
by himself, in which he says about the be- 

ginning of the evening services that we came in sight of the camp. 
The rising and swelHng on the air of the distant harmony, from a great 
multitude devoutly praisinp^ God, impressed me strangely. I now recall 
that peculiar thrill that always pervaded me whenever I listened to the 
old, hearty devout Presbyterian camp-meeting singing. I have never 
since been so carried away by any 'service of song in the House of the 
Lord.^ Away out for nearly a mile on that night came that grand hymn 
of praise as we ascended the hill and silently took a panoramic view of 
the imposing scene. The day of our arrival was a memorable one in my 
life. The scenes of the previous evening had made me unusually 
thoughtful. The ordinary morning services were concluded; after a 
few moments^ recess, the signal for resuming public worship was given 
by the spirited singing of old 'Lenox,^ 'Blow Ye the Trumpet, Blow.' 
***** Before the hymn was ended, I had leisurely strolled 
down the main aisle, looking in vain for a seat, until arrested within 
twenty feet of the stand by a sweet, but to me, strange voice, leading 
the congregation in prayer. 'Who was that?' was the whispered in- 
quiry about me. 'A Mr. Brainerd of Cincinnati,' was the reply. Then 
I understood that he was the young man whom my father wished to 
hear. I at once became interested in him. He had a directness and 
earnestness of manner that from the announcement of his text to the 
close of the sermon held me, standing by a tree during its entire deliv- 
ery, with unflao'ging attention. It was his appearance and voice, I 
think, that first arrested me, but when he announced his text, ^And 
they made light of it/ I was completely absorbed. As to his method of 
treating it, my memory is entirely at fault. All I remember is the 
beaming countenance, the loving eye fixed upon me as I stood directly 
before him, and the tremendous conviction all the time surging 
through my soul, that I was the one who had deliberately made light of 
the great salvation ! So deeply was I moved with a sense of my own 
personal guilt, that I cannot state what may have been the general 
effect of the discourse, only I had the impression that there was much 
weeping and even audible sobbing around me. The service closed, and 
in accordance with an invitation to all who were awakened to seek some 
secret place of prayer without delay, I went into the spacious grove at 
the rear of the encampment, that I might find some spot where I could 
be alone and pour out my troubled soul to G-od. But here I came upon 
one, and there upon another, kneeling in prayer, and from every direc- 
tion there came to my ear the low voices of supplication. The whole 
grove was a, Bethel. I see now in my mind the very log, by the side of 
which I cast myself, and with the last lines of the hymn sung at the 
close of Mr. Brainerd's sermon ringing in my ears — 

"Venture on Him, venture wholly, 
Let no other trust intrude^" 

I endeavored to take hold of my Lord's hand. I ventured.' 



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''In this way began his warm, earnest Christian life, which was 
maintained faithful until death. With this consecration of his heart 
to the service of God fully influencing his character, he entered Hano- 
ver College, and passed through a regular course of study until he 
graduated. After graduating, he spent two years teaching near Madi- 
son, Ind. In the fall of 1840 he entered Lane Sem- 
inar}* and pursued a regular three years' course. Dr. Lyman Beecher 
was then the center of influence in that institution, in the height of his 
power. * * * ❖ * boon after he graduated he accepted the call 
of the church at Monticello, Ind., and entered upon his work as Pastor. 
Here he found a wide field of labor. He spent much time visiting his 
people, often preaching in school houses eight or ten miles distant, rid- 
ing horseback. On the 8th day of July, 1844, Mr. Cheever was mar- 
ried to Margaret L. Jackson, youngest daughter of Mrs. Lyman 
Beecher, of \\^alnut Hills, Ohio. The malarial influences which per- 
vaded the region of country about Monticello so impaired Mr.Cheever's 
health and that of his wife as to compel their removal. 

"In 1847 he accepted a call from the Second Presbyterian church 
at Rockville, Ind., and removed there. Here his wife sickened and 
died.. While pursuing his work as Pastor at Rockville, he was called 
upon by a Minister who was acting as Presbyterial Missionary for that 
region, who informed him that some sixteen persons in Terre Haute 
had obtained letters of dismission for the purpose of organizing a New 
School Presbyterian church there. Those were the days of sharp con- 
test in the Presbyterian Church, and it was deemed necessary to form 
a New School church, even though there were already two Old School 
churches in that place. 'Now,' said the Minister, holding him by the 
hand, standing on the doorstep, ^if these brethren send for you as the 
nearest clergyman to organize them into a New School Presbyterian 
church, do it, or I shall be compelled to go a much greater distance [o 
do it myself.' The invitation came, and on the 31st of December, 
1848, he organized the Baldwin Presbyterian Church of Terre Haute. 

"From this church he subsequently received a call, and was in- 
-stalled Pastor in December, 1849. Here he remained several years, 
and labored with earnestness and success. The church grew and pros- 
pered under his care. Revivals of religion were enjoyed, and many 
ivere gathered into the Kingdom of God. In the winter of 1850-1, 
meetings were held every day for twelve weeks. ***** 

"On the 3d of June, 1851, he was united in marriage to E.Carolyn 
Ball, daughter of Dr. E. V. Ball, of Terre Haute ; she has lived the be- 
loved companion of his remaining years, the faithful Pastor's wife, 
known and loved by you all. * * * * 

"While he was laboring at Terre Haute, the church at Troy, 0., 
became much disturbed. It was divided into two hostile parties, at open 
war with each other ; some would not speak to others ; anonymous let- 
ters were sent ; and all was discord. Dr. Allen, of Lane Seminary, 
exerted his influence to harmonize them in vain, but induced them to 

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extend a call to Mr. Cheever, and urged him to accept. This he did, 
and in 1858 removed to Troy. 

^^The task was a hard one, but at length the discord ceased and the 
different factions came together and worked in harmony. It was a 
blessed result which showed the care and great skill of the Pastor. 
While there he took an active part iji the cause of temperance, alluding 
to it in several of his sermons. This gave offense, and he was waited 
upon by a committee, who told him that it would never do to press that 
matter, as one or two of the wealthy members of the church were sell- 
ing wood and grain to the distilleries ; it would not do to offend them ; 
that there had been so much trouble in the church, and things were Ijj- 
ginning to look brighter, that he must overlook these matters for the 
present. The next Sabbath he preached a sermon denouncing all such 
practices among Christian people; as a church they could never pros- 
per until they abandoned it. This produced great excitement in town, 
and the results were in doubt for a time, but the traffic ceased, and it 
gained him friends in the end. 

"While at Troy, Lane Seminary became embarrassed, and the 
Faculty came for Mr. Cheever to raise money to extricate them from 
their financial difficulty. The church refused to give him up ; but at 
length, after an earnest appeal by Dr. Allen, consented that he should 
leave for a time. Mr. Cheever took hold of the work, and prosecuted 
it with such success, that in less than four months, he raised the needed 
sum, nearly $50,000, and returned to his pastoral work. 

"In 1866 he left Troy, and became Secretary of the American 
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions for the West. He ever 
possessed an ardent missionary spirit and was ready to aid in carrying 
on the work in all laudable ways. After the union of the Old and N'ew 
School Presbyterians, the work of the x\merican Board closed in the 
Presbyterian Church, and he was left free to resume his work as Pastor. 
A kind Providence called his attention to this church [Kansas City, 
Second] to which he came in 1871. His installation here took place 
Sabbath, Dec. 31, 1871. The invitation to this church came in the first 
instance through a letter which he had Avritten to a former parishioner, 
not a resident of this city, in which he stated his readiness to resume 
pastoral work: ^I am hungry,^ he wrote, 'for a flock, not to eat, but 
to feed.^ 

"Of his work here we are all witnesses. With what earnestness 
he entered upon his work, and how faithfully he labored to advance the 
interests of this church, we all know. He came among us in the full 
vigor of ripened manhood, with a mind well stored with knowledge, 
and especially trained by a practical acquaintance with men as they >.])- 
peai in the actual life of the world. * * * Every communion season dur- 
ing his pastorate has witnessed some additions to the members. There 
has been a continuous revival much of the time since he came here, not 
as is sometimes seen accompanied with great excitement and general 
public attention, but a quiet, progressive work. Particularly has this 



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been the ease in the last two years. In 1876 there was an accession 
of 25 by letter and 24: by profession. In 1877 there were 29 by letter 
and 52 by profession of faith. 

"In his pastoral work he was particularly careful to interest and 
care for the young, maintaining a weekly meeting for their special 
benefit on each Monday night, and watching over them with an un- 
interrupted care. He was careful to look after the young members of 
the church and direct their Christian life and work. He bore them 
on his mind, and wished to guide and shape their character. He was 
accustomed to have a list of the young, and they were the objects of 
his frequent and earnest prayer. His sermons were clear, earnest and 
practical, rather than specially learned, or peculiarly ornate and ima- 
ginative. He was never dull, never sensational, but always clear, 
methodical and warmly in earnest. He carefully studied to secure var- 
iety, and interested himself in the common affairs of life. With an 
eye to appreciate business around him, he interested business men, al- 
ways commanded their respect and attention. 

"His natural characteristics were such as to make him a good Pas- 
tor. His personal appearance was good. Of medium size, but slender 
build, he enjoyed a fair degree of health, but was never a man of great 
strength and vigor. His mild but expressive eye, his genial smile, his 
neatness in dress will always be remembered by those who knew him. 
He had a great degree of both natural and acquired courage. Cheerful 
and vivacious, yet always dignified and courteous, never descending 
to levity nor exhibiting a trace of melancholy or asceticism. I^o one 
would be embarrassed in his presence, yet no one would trifle with 
sacred things where he was. He loved the denomination to which he 
belonged and labored to extend it, while he had a broad and catholic 
spirit and loved the whole Church of God. Such was the man who 
quietly toiled until arrested by the disease which terminated in death.. 

"The disease which finally terminated his life was peculiar and 
extremely painful.* In the hope of arresting it and prolonging his life,, 
he submitted once and again to extended and severe surgical operations. - 
But his work was done. The hour written in the book of Eternity was 
drawing near, and nothing could postpone it. Slowly and quietly he 
sank down, exhibiting in all his course a fortitude and bravery that is 
seldom seen, perhaps nexer excelled. After this surgery, he found 
difficulty in free conversation, but he could write his words and wishes, 
and all these indicate perfect calmness and self-possession, a faith in 
God which nothing could disturb. Some time after he was thus 
disabled, a member of the family was singing in his hearing the words 
and tune ^Hold the Fort,^ when he joined in and carried the bass 
through. At another time he writes for the family worship: 'Sit 
down and read the 103d Psalm. Sing 'Tis the Promise of Go'd Full 
Salvation to Give,^ and repeat the Lord^s Prayer together.^ What cour- 

♦This disease was cancerous. The final operation removed the whole of one side of 
his face, including cheek bone, half of each jaw and one eye. He was buried just six 
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ageous, cheerful spirit shines through this sentence: ^There is not 
much left on that right side. It is a blessed thing that we are made 
double !^ At another time he writes : Take it all in all, from the be- 
ginning we have made a brave battle for life; we have done the best 
we could, and calmly leave the issue with our dear Father/ 

"Surely no one who saw his calmness in view of the inevitable 
suffering which he fullv understood, when he walked with unfaltering- 
step and calmly laid do^vn and closed his eyes, knowing the needed 
surgeon's knife must come, but would say : Indeed it was a brave bat- 
tie for life, a heroic spirit ! With a full knowledge of all his situation 
he wrote : 'The Lord has been very gracious to me, and I trust him to 
the end/ Thus he continued slowly sinking until the end came. There 
was not a murmur nor a word of complaint. Nothing was to be done ; 
he had only to lie at Jesus' feet ready for the summons when the hour 
should come. Thus he continued until the morning of Sabbath, June 
2d, when he sank to his peaceful rest. 

"We have no doubt of the crown of life now. In the language of 
Bunyan, whom he so much loved, 'He dwelt awhile in the land of Beu- 
lah gazing quietly on the brightening view of the Celestial City, into 
which he was soon to enter.' And when the summons came, he went 
quietly down into the dark river, which we all must so soon cross, and 
passed over, to enter the City of God and join the Church of the Re- 
deemed in Heaven !" 



' SETH GOLD CLARK. 

No History of the Presbytery of Kansas City can ever be written 
properly without giving prominence to the work done by Mr. Clark. 
A graphic sketch of some of his work in the early days of this Presby- 
tery appears, from his own pen, in the sketch of the Butler church. 
The character of the man may perhaps be best shown by other ex- 
tracts from letters written by him during the period of his greatest 
activity in this region. But first look at the preparation of the man for 
the work he then attempted and accomplished. Under the title 
Home Mission Enthusiast," the Church at Home and Abroad published 
in the July number, 1898, a notice by the present writer, of the man 
and his work, from which a portion of this sketch is now quoted : 

The Rev. Seth Gold Clark, who died at his home in Appleton City 
Mo., April 22, 1898, was one of the most enthusiastic and indefati- 
gable Ilome Mission pioneers of the Central West. For over fifty years 
incessantly active in the work he loved, he was one of the best exam- 
ples of a missionary type now fast disappearing. 

He was born in Delaware county, N. Y., Aug. 13, 1817, and after 
a boyhood spent on farms in New York and Ohio, graduated at Western 
Reserve College in 1843, and at Western Reserve Seminary in 1846. 
He was licensed by the Presbytery of Cleveland, Oct. 7, 1845, and be- 



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gan at cnce svpplying three little mission churches in Ohio. From 
there he weni to Bainhridge, 0., where he was ordained in May, 1847, 
and r(;maiiiecl two years. During his next pastorate, at Aurora, 0., his 
health failed. Then followed eleven years' service as District Secre- 
tary of the A. B. C. F. M., and three as Chslplain of the 10th Ohio 
Volunteer Cavalry, 1862-5. Ten days before Atlanta was taken, he 
was captured, but was soon released as a non-combatant. The twenty 
days' furlough he was then given to visit his family he "spent in help- 
ing to elect Lincoln." The Mayor of Cleveland telegraphed the Presi- 
dent to keep him in Ohio till after the election, which he did. Unable 
on his return to the army to reach his regiment, then on its march to 
the sea, he was assigned by Gen. Thomas to the work of raising funds 
for the Sanitary Commission. In August, 1865, he became Chaplain 
of the House of Correction in Detroit and of the Seamen's Friend So- 
ciety. This he kept but a short time, until, on Jan. 2, 1866, he left 
his home to take up the work in which he was to become most success- 
ful, and for which he is best known. 

In less than three years after his arrival in Missouri he had per- 
sonally gathered, organized, and supplied with preaching until other 
supplies could be obtained, churches at Holden in Johnson county. 
Greenwood in Jackson county, Harrisonville and Austin in Cass coun- 
ty, Butler, Lone Oak and Papinsville in Bates county, (Hudson now) 
Appleton City in St. Clair county, and Lamar in Barton county. Some 
years later two of these towns, unable to obtain expected railroads, died 
a natural death as did their churches. Two other organizations were 
outstripped by later organizations by other Presbyterian denomina- 
tions. There remain today five good churches organized before 1870 
by that one Missionary "settled on horse back." But that is by no means 
all the work he did during that period. He thoroughly explored the 
whole region now contained in the western part of the Presbytery. His 
judgment ktpf other points from organizing in case he found that there 
were reasons of comity or of Christian liberality to give others a prior 
claim. Some other people were not so careful toward him. In April, 
1868, he wrote : "You know I have given up my comfortable house of 

worship and desirable charge in for a new field without a 

house of worship in the county. I have been enabled to organize four 
churches since I last wrote you, and have now five churches and two 
congregations where we have not yet organized, * * * I have a very in- 
teresting field indeed. Would not swap it for any church in America. 

'No thanks to the crabbid Elder or the designing C s, but thanks 

to God for giving me 'four churches for one." 

j^o wonder even such a man could not do all the work he attempt- 
ed. In December following he wrote: "I must have help, or things will 
be sadly neglected. I shall be obliged to give up some places and even 
churches entirely. Five churches and eight preaching places are too 
much." Take notice mat he was at that time over 51 years old. But 
age 'did not daunt him. In July of the year following, 1869, he wrote : 
" has committed the unpardonable sin of beginning to be gray. 



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Dr. Kendall will have a nice time getting me oi? his hands, if I am 
getting gray V His prophecy proved true — he was a Home Missionary 
for almost 29 years after that. The same grit appears in a letter of six 
nioT.th> hner: ''Got Bro. C .... to W .... to stay two or three 
Sabbaths, and the report says h^ skedaddled. When I am sent as a 

Missionary to W or Africa, or any other place, and don't stay at 

least one year, it will be because I am driven away V 

He kept up quite a correspondence with friends in the East in the 
effort to secure men to take charge of the fields he organized and of 
others he thought ought to be cared for about him. When he succeeded 
in getting a promising church well started, he moved on to some less 
promising field, not because his services were not acceptable where he 
was, but because he could more easily secure supplies for the better 
places, tho even his best places were not as attractive to those at a dis- 
tance as they were to him on the ground. He wrote many men before 
he secured one. But he kept writing, saying at times : "I have just 
written another man today, and unless I run out of postage, I will get 
some one." His appeals for help were pathetic though never despair- 
ing, as witness the following: 

"The B . . . . and H churches both observed the Week of 

Prayer ; and while we were yet praying, God heard and answered. I 
could not be in both places and so was obliged to give up B. to the Bap- 
tists, and they have reaped there a glorious harvest that might just as 
well have been gathered by us, if I could only have had help. Our 
church was in a good state, while the Baptist was not. All worked 
together, but the Baptists carried off the spoil, most of it. But God 
be praised, for it was a good work. There will be between 80 and 90 
added to the three churches. I tell you Bro. Hill it is a little hard to 
do the pioneer work, and travel 2500 miles on horseback to get things 
going nicel}^, and then for want of a little help at the right time, see 
the harvest gathered by others and put in a close-communion granary ! 
Still I rejoice, and will rejoice, that since we could Hot do it, others 
have. There is an excellent state of feeling, and we shall get a few.*' 

While laboring in this vast field, it is not surprising to find that his 
mind was turned to the subject of education, both on account of the 
needs of his own family and because of the difficulty of obtaining higher 
advantages anywhere in this part of the state. In 1870 he wrote Dr. 
Hill : "It would be hard for me to give up my chosen missionary work 
and my present field. But it may be my duty. You remember that 
we have been pioneers, and have had less than one year of schooling 
[since coming to Missouri] and not even a good district school till this 
eun-mer.'^ And a few weeks later, he wrote again : "I am exceedingly 
anxious that something should be done toward starting an institution 
of learning near the center of the State, that may eventually grow into 
a college. Sedalia would be a good point. * * * If Presbyterians are 
going to hold Missouri permanently, we must raise up a ministry on 
the ground. There have been failures; but what of that? The thing 



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is made to work everywhere else ; why not in Missouri ?" But, possibly 
unfortunately for Missouri, he took iiola of an existing college m Kan- 
sas instead of starting one in Missouri. An opportunity opened for 
him to become Financial Agent for Highland University. He embraced 
it eagerly, saying, even before he went there, "I have never become so 
deeply interested in anything in my life as in Highland. I thinly of 
it, plan for it, work for it with a will, then dream about it. It must 
go.'" 

From 1871-6 Mr. Clark was Financial Agent for Highland Uni- 
versity. The last two summers of that time were spent with a mission- 
ary tent outfit, furnished by Sunday schools in the East. He traveled 
through Northern Kansas and Southern N"ebraska, preaching daily to 
congregations averaging 100 on week nights and from 150 to 300 on 
Sundays. This was strictly pioneer work in regions beyond Ministers 
and churches. The tent work he was accustomed to regard as the most 
successful of his life. He was everywhere gladly welcomed. During 
1877-78 he supplied the churches of lola and Carlyle, Kan.; 1879-80, 
Baxter Springs, Galena and Empire, Kan.; 1881-85, Rich Hill, Rock- 
ville and Hume, all three of which he organized during those four 
years of his second stay in this Presbytery. He then spent ten years 
in Southwestern Kansas, where he found nine counties adjoining, m 
none of which was there an organized church. During those years he 
organized eight churches, seven of which, in spite of drought and the 
consequent depopulation of large districts, are still on the Minutes of 
the General Assembly. The year 1895 found him again in this Pres- 
bytery, settled at Raymore, which under his labors was much revived 
and built a beautiful house of worship. 

At last when nearly eighty years old, with mind and voice unim- 
paired, he was forced by physical infirmities to give up his active min- 
istry. It was an affecting scene when by vote of Presbytery he was 
"honorably retired,^^ and recommended to the Board of Relief. Ail 
there knew of his active life and realized that it was not boastfulness 
that led him to rise and say that, able, as he then supposed, to preach 
better than ever before, he would gladly sacrifice his right arm rather 
than go onto the Board, if only he were physically able to continue in 
the ministry. No service did he ever shirk as too hard, no field as too 
unattractive. Always and everywhere he loved to proclaim salvation 
to the uttermost through J esus Christ. Like every other true Mission- 
ary, he recognized no bounds of race or clime, but worked and prayed 
for the universal spread of the Gospel. No wonder Miss Mary Clark, 
the daughter of such a Home Missionary, should be found for years 
a Foreign Missionary in distant Persia; and a grandson, the Rev. C. 
C. McKinney, a graduate of Park College, and for two years a student 
at McCormiek Theological Seminary, should now be found on a Home 
Mission field among us, engaged in the same blessed work his grand- 
father loved so enthusiastically. 

What a record ! It will never be fully written on earth. His 
mission work in at least five states, the organization of thirty-one 



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churches^ most of wliieii during his ministry erectea houses of worship, 
his army chaplaincy, his evangelistic work in prisons, harbors, battle 
fields, mining camps, frontier settlements and in the well settled com- 
munities East and West, his vigorous advocacy of Education at home 
and Missions abroad — these are a few of the reasons why he will long 
be held in grateful remembrance. A few months before his death he 
modestly wrote of himself that his had been '^a very busy, checkered 
life ; possibly some good may result/' 



WILLIAM POETER COCHRAlSr. 

One of the strongest and most interesting characters among the 
early pioneers of Presbyterianism in Western Missouri was the Rev. 
W. P. Cochran. Identified all his long ministerial life with Missouri, 
an interesting and valuable volume might be written on his life, but 
so far as we know none such has been published. Though originally 
identified with the New School Church, he, like many others in the 
State, was early found among the Old Scliool party, with which he was 
thereafter identified till the Reunion. At the Semi- Centennial 
meeting of the Synod of Missouri, held in St. Louis in 1883, he was 
the only one of the original members of the Synod that was present. 
Very fittingly he then gave a paper on the history of that branch of 
the Synod with which he had been connected. 

An extended sketch of Dr. Cochran was published in the Presby- 
terian Recorder for x\pril, 1856, pp. 251-9, from which we condense the 
following concerning his early labors in the bounds of this Presbytery : 

"His parents were of the Scotch-Irish stamp. Early in infancy 
he was dedicated to God in the ordinance of baptism. In the autumn of 
1821 he entered the Sophomore class in Dickinson College in Car- 
lisle, Pennsylvania, then under the presidency of the Rev. John M. 
Mason, D.D. His prospective intention in receiving an education was 
to become a lawyer. He was at this time a wild, thoughtless boy as 
regards religion and religious things, though studious and ambitious 
to occupy a distinguished position at the bar.-'' He read infidel books 
and scoffed at the seriousness of his college mates during a revival that 
occurred while he was a student. But at last the Spirit of God reached 
him and he took a decided stand for Christ. "In January [1823], in 
company with about 40 of his fellow students and a large number of 
the citizens of the town, he united with the Presbyterian church. He 
graduated in the last of June, 1824. After a considerable struggle, he 
made up his mind to go to Princeton Theological Seminary, though 
by no means having settled it in his own mind that it was his duty 
to preach the Gospel. The Lord led him along by a way he knew not. 
In the fall of 1827, he having passed through the course of studies pre- 
scribed by the Seminary, was licensed to preach the Gospel by the 
Presbytery of Huntingdon, Pa., and soon afterwards left his home, his 



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friends and the scenes of liis youth as a Missionary for Missouri, under 
the patronage of the American Home Missionary Society. His place 
of destination was Old Franklin, Howard county [now the Boonville 
church.] He arrived in St. Louis the 20th day of Hpvember, and after 
spending- a Sabbath there, and preaching for the Ilev. Mr. Giddings, 
he took the stage and went to St. v^harles, where he spent another Sab- 
bath and preached for the Rev. Mr. Robinson. He then stopped a 
Sabbath with the Rev. Mr. Lacy at the Dardenne, where he overtook 
the Rev. Thomas R. Durfee, another Missionary under the A. H. M. S., 
on his way to Callaway county. They journeyed together, having been 
furnished with horses by a friend at the Dardenne. Mr. Cochran spent 
the next Sabbath in that county with his co-laborer and beloved Brother 
Durfee. He then made the best of his way through mud and rain to 
his destination, Old Franklin. 

"Mr. Cochran was received into the Presbytery of Missouri in the 
spring of 1828, and ordained at that time as an Evangelist. After 
the death of the lamented Mr. Giddings, the church at St. Louis wrote 
for Mr. Cochran to come down and supply their pulpit until they could 
be permanently supplied. He went down in February, and remained 
there until Jnne. when tlie Rev. Wm. Potts came to the charge of the 
church. Mr. Cochran then went to his old post, preaching in the coun- 
ties of Howard, Cooper aird Boon. In June following Kj was mar- 
ried to Mrs. Eliza M. Scott.'' 

The sketch quoted goes on to tell of the remarkable success of Mr. 
Cochran in missionary and revival work in many places north of the 
Missouri river, in which work he was associated with the noted revi- 
valists of that dav, Messrs. Durfee, Hoxsie and Dr. David Nelson. 
^'Whilst a decided Presbyterian, he was not a bigot. He rejoiced in the 
success of the Gospel amono- all evangelical Christians, and co-operated 
with them in preachino-. He made it a matter of conscience to fulfill 
all his appointments to preach; hence, no weather, wet or dry, hot or 
cola, prevented him from reaching them. He often swam creeks and 
rivers to reach them. His wife in the early part of his ministry usually 
accompanied him in his preaching tours, and in his services raised the 
tunes for singing". There were at that early period but few churches 
in Missouri — preaching was mostly done in court houses, log school 
houses, private houses and in the open air under groves. Mr. Cochran 
received aid from the A. H. M. S. until he left Boon county, which was 
in December, 1833, when his connection with that Society finally 
terminated.'' 

The spirit of the man was shown by the way in which he con- 
tinued to preach in Missouri, often in the face of mob violence, where 
some of the greatest miracles of grace were wrought. "He remained 
in Missouri from a sense of duty. He had several offers of good 
churches and remunerating salaries; but he felt that other Ministers 
could not be induced to enter this field, and endure the hardships and 
live upon the mere pittance the churches paid as a salary; and that 
he could live from the proceeds of his farm, and do all he could to keep 



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the standard of Presbyterianism erect/' * * ''During Mr. C's min- 
istry he always paid a special regard to the religious condition of the 
colored population. He preached to them in separate congregations, 
held Bible classes for them, visited them when sick, preached their 
funerals, and endeavored to promote Sunday schools among them. 
This excited much opposition to him, and notwithstanding he was for 
many years a slaveholder himself, laid him open to the wolf-cry of 
Abolitionist. Indeed, personal violence was threatened him on this ac- 
•count, yet none of these things moved him ; the Word of God was the 
lamp to his feet and the light to his path." 



DAVID COULTER. 

One of the strong men of the original Lafayette Presbytery was 
the Rev. David Coulter, D.D., who had been received the year before 
by the Presbytery of Upper Missouri and installed over the Hopewell 
church, April 22, 1856. There he remained till April 20, 1867. At 
the same time he served the Prairie church as Stated Supply. Years 
before he had twice been the Stated Supply of the Jefferson City 
church. A good biography of him, edited by the Rev. W. W. Robertson 
w^as published some years ago, from which we take the liberty of quot- 
ing a part of Dr. Fackler's memorial discourse. 

"In all the fields of labor ocupied by Bro. Coulter, he won golden 
opinions. Those who knew him best loved him most. I have reason 
to know that his name is still fragrant in every congregation he ever 
served ; and how it could be otherwise. All his actions, the whole tem- 
per and spirit of his conduct, in the pulpit and out of it, bespoke him 
a man of determination to know nothing save Jesus Christ and Him 
<3rucified. Besides the work of glorifying his Lord and Master, and 
doing good to his fellow men, he gave his thoughts and attention to 
very few objects. He was regarded everywhere as one thoroughly con- 
secrated to his vocation as a Gospel Minister. I do not believe the 
wealth and honors of the world would have turned him aside one hair'a 
breadth from the line of his sacred calling. Like Paul he 'magnified 
his office.' He literally gloried in the cross of Christ. To preach 
Jesus acceptably was the noblest ambition of his life. * * * 

"As a Presbyter Dr. Coulter always ranked high in the estimation 
of his brethren. * in Presbytery and S3^nod his name was always 
found on the most important committees. His reports were invariably 
carefully written and promptly submitted. On all subjects of moment 
he held pronounced opinions, and his judgment when given was uni- 
formly treated with respect. * * * 

"As a preacher he was not only sound in doctrine, but always 
eminently practical, earnest and tender. His theology was that of 
Paul. He believed the doctrines of grace and loved and clung to them 
with all his heart. Christ and his righteousness were the burden of 



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almost every sermon I ever heard him deliver. More than twenty years 
agO;, in my own pulpit at J eff erson City, I heard him declare, with won- 
derful emphasis, that the sinner in order to be saved must be wrapped 
in the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. The very night he died 
he remarked to a brother Minister of another denomination: am 
wrapped in the rohe of Christ's righteousness.^ This was the doctrine 
•of human helpless and Christ's ail-sufficiency he delighted to preach. 
* * * Wonderfully instructive and comforting to God's people were 
the discourses he delivered, both in public and in private. It has often 
seemed to me a matter of impossibility for any man of intelligence to 
sit regularly under his ministry without being built up and established 
in the faith of Christ. His manner and spirit in the pulpit were those 
of a man wholly absorbed in his theme. When dealing with the high 
thoughts of the Gospel and man's relation to God, I think there was 
less self-consciousness about him than any other man I ever knew. I 
have seen him and heard him both in his sermons and prayers when 
he appeared to mc as one standing almost face to face with his Maker. 
The very tones of ms voice have thrilled me as he pleaded with sin- 
ners for Christ and with Christ for sinners. * * * 

"As a pastor he was true and faithful, tender and kind. His pres- 
ence was always welcome in the family, his counsels judicious and well- 
timed. His reproofs and admonitions were administered in the gentle 
^md loving spirit of the Master whom he served. * * * 

"His religious life ran at an even flow, like a calm and peaceful 
river. There could be nothing spasmodic in such a character as his. 
Whether in the pulpit dealing with the high tliemes of redemption or 
in the prayer meeting leading the devotions of his people, or in the 
social circle giving tone to Christian intercourse, or in the chamber of 
suffering and bereavement, speaking words of sympathy and encourage- 
ment, every where he carried upon him the flavor of an earnest, conse- 
"Crated man of God. i^o one could mistrust either his spirit or his pur- 
pose. I do not believe that the most evil-disposed would have dared 
to charge him with the least approach to insiucerity while in the per- 
formance of his ministerial and religious duties. 

The same volume contains many concise tributes of esteem and 
-affection, but none more expressive than that published years after- 
wards by Dr. George Miller, who in the times of the Declaration and 
Testimony controversy took the opposite side from Dr. Coulter. His 
words were : "Brother David Coulter, a modest retiring man of rare 
attainments in knowledge, love, zeal and Christian character." 



WILLIAM DICKSOX. 

The changes in the Presbyterial history of the Old School branch 
of our Church are well illustrated in the case of William Dickson. All 
his life in this State was spent in charge of the same field in Lafayette 
count}^, yet he belonged to three Presbyteries while there. He was 



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one of the original members of the Presbytery of Upper Missouri at 
its organization in 1844; and likewise was one of the original mem- 
bers at the organization of the Presbytery of Lafayette in 1857^ and 
at the reorganization of Upper Missouri Presbytery by the Declaration 
and Testimony party in 1867. 

The only sketch of Mr. Dickson that has come into the hands of 
the Committee on Presbvterial History is the following fragment by 
Dr. E. S. Sj-mington: "Of Bro. Dickson^ I know very little. He was 
one of the pioneers of Presbyterianism in Missouri. He and his brother 
came out to Missouri with a colony from Kentucky. Located near what 
is now the village of Wellington, and organized the Mt. Hope church 
in Lafayette Presbytery. He was installed Pastor, and remained in 
that locality until his death. He preached plain, strong, well con- 
nected sermons. He was beloved by nis people, and highly esteemed 
by his Presbyterian brethren. He was very much opposed to what were 
then styled 'new measures.^ I remember assisting him in a sacramental 
meeting. He closed the meeting on Monday morning, when it seemed 
to me a deep interest pervaded the congregation. He feared 'revival 
meetings.^ Sometime after this a young lady from his congregation 
was visiting at Dr. Lester's in Kansas City. When Mrs. Lester intro- 
duced her to me, she said: 'I am acquainted with Bro. Symington. 
He is my father. Under his preaching I was born again.'' Otliers^ 
were deeply interested, but he feared 'Xew School methods.' 



^^ATHAXIEL BROWIN^ DODGE. 

Of the founder of Harmony Mission, and hence in a sense the 
founder of the Presbytery of Kansas City, we have not been able to se- 
cure the materials for as extended a sketch as doubtless would be profit- 
able.* The Oenealogy of the Dodge family (1894), pp. 197-8, contains 
this short sketch: "Rev. ^^^athaniel B. Dodge 6 (Nathaniel B. 5, Eli- 
jah 4, Joseph 3, Joseph 2, Richard l)b. Winchester, N. H.,5 June, 1781; 
d. at Little Osage, Mo., 3 Sept., 1848. Nathaniel Brown 5, his father, 
moved to Barre, March, 1794, or possibly .... 1795. Nathaniel B., 
Jr. 6, must have acquired the rudiments of an education before leav- 
ing W., and rendered some service in teaching the first schools in his 
neighborhood. He also rendered some service in the war of 
1812. He removed to Underhill, Yt., where he preached five years as 
a Congregational Minister, or until 1821. He was then called to ^ew 
York City to organize ten or eleven families and five lady teachers as 
Missionaries to the Usage Indians. They went to Philadelphia by sea, 
thence to Pittsburgh by large wagons. At Pittsburgh they built boats 
to go down the Ohio and up the Mississippi. They went up the Missouri 
in keel boats to the mouth of the Osage, and up that as far as they 
could cordell, and till the stream became too shallow to go farther. 

*We had hoped to use for a frontispiece a picture of this pioneer Missionary, but 
investigation proved that none is known to exist. 



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They then settled on its banks within a mile of the present town oi 
Papmsville, Bates Co., Mo,, having consumed four months in their la- 
borious journey, some dying by the way. Eev. B. 6 was made Super- 
intendent of this Mission by appointment of the A. B. C. F. M., and 
called this post Harmony Mission. 

"In the course of six or seven years the Government moved the 
Indians to Neosho, in what is now Kansas, to which place he followed, 
there founding the Boudinot Mission. In five or six years it became 
unsafe to remain, and he returned to Little Osage, where he built a 
church, preaching and teaching as long as he lived. He married Sallie 
Gale. 22 March, 1803. She was born at Princeton, Mass., 21 July, 
1784. d. 20 Dec. 1866." 

Another notice of the w^ork of Mr. Dodge and of the Harmony 
Mission was published in the Presbytery Reporter, July, 1860, pp. 321- 
5. From that we extract the remainder of this notice, except the fact 
that Mr. Dodge was the first Moderator of the New School Synod of 
Missouri, that met in St. Louis, Apr. 8, 1842. The sketch in the Re- 
porter after giving the story of the Mission and of Mr. D's connection 
with it, goes on to say that upon the abandonment of the Mission, "Mr. 
Dodge, who was always interested in the welfare of the neighboring 
settlements, made the natural transition from the Foreign to the Home 
Missionary, still remaining in the same place. His first commission 
from the A. H. M. S. was April 25, 1836, Ho labor in the vicinity of 
Harmony Mission Station.^ Some time previous to this he had formed 
a Congregational church in that neighborhood, which Avas undoubtedly 
the first church of that order ever organized west of the Mississippi, 
unless the Mission churches were of that order. Of his success as a 
Home Missionary I have not .been able to obtain much definite infor- 
mation. There was about that time a great readiness to hear the Gos- 
pel in that part of the State and the Harmony Presbytery was organ- 
ized in that region. In the Home Missionary for 1841 a report by Mr. 
D. is given : T find a great share of the people when I go inclined to 
hear, and some of them profess to love the Gospel. Those who profess 
religion are mostly of the Baptist and Methodist denominations, and 
there are some who profess a hope who have never made a public pro- 
fession of religion. In most places where appointments have been made 
the people have manifested very respectful attention to the Word 
spoken. I have seen ardent -feelings manifested, backsliders trembling, 
and some earnestly inquiring what they must do to be saved.^ * * * 

"Mr. Dodge was a man, of good natural ability, and a pious, earn- 
est and devoted man. The life of seclusion as a Missionary naturally 
gave a distinct individuality of character, and he was affected by it in 
the same way as others. There was the appearance of rigidity in his 
manners and his forms of thought. A lady who was herself from New 
England once remarked of him, that he was the best preserved speci- 
men of an old-fashioned New England country Minister she had met 
with in the West — ^his manners, his dress, and all together suggested 
a generation passed away — one of the old-fashioned type. He was un- 



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willing to depart from the ways of IS ew England, even among the pio- 
neers. A sacramental meeting was once held in liis church, and several 
of his brethren were with him. A number of persons were hopefully 
converted, and his brethren nrged him to admit them to the church 
then ; but he declared that such was not the custom in Vermont, and he 
would not do it. Soon the Methodists came and held a meeting, sweep- 
ing in all his converts, some of them members of his own family, into 
their fold. 

"His life is an illustration of the usefulness of effort for good. 
He did not acomplish much as an Indian Missionary, but he met his 
kindred race at their jirst entrance into an important section of the 
country. At the formation of the Presbytery of Osage, many of the 
Ministers and Elders had been connected with that Mission. The 
mechanics and farmers of the Mission became the nuclei of churches 
in all the region around the Station which was their first home, sent 
forth as pioneers of their own race and extenders of the Kingdom of 
Christ." : , 

One other fragmentary notice speaks of him as "a devoted Min- 
ister, systematic, consecrated to pioneer work. Kept up monthly con- 
cert of prayer." 



CYRUS H. DUNLAP. 

Sedalia will long remember the influence of the Rev. C. H. Dunlap 
who came to its First church at a critical period, and remained during 
the period of its division and reorganization. He succeeded the Rev. 
Dr. John Monto-omery, the first Pastor, who was shortly before his com- 
ing, laid aside from the work of the pastorate by a bodily injury. 
Those were the days when nearly all Missouri churches were divided, 
or at least excited, over the Declaration and Testimony. In Sedalia, 
as in several other instances, an earnest effort was made to prevent 
division by keeping the church independent of either party. The 
church was not represented in either Presbytery for the first two years 
of Mr. Dunlap^s ministry there. In 1870, however, the spirit of Re- 
union carried the majority of the church and their Pastor into tlfe 
Presbytery of Osage. The minority withdrew and organized what is 
now the Broadway church. The old church, retained the services of Mr. 
Dunlap until 1872, when he accepted a call to the Calvary church of 
Springfield. During his time the church grew and built a house of 
worship, which is now used by the Central church, the old house having 
been amicably retained by the other party at the time of the division. 

Dr. Nevin^s notice of him says: "Mr. Dunlap is a preacher of 
good parts and of power. His sermons are clear, scriptural and 
spiritual. He speaks with great earnestness and sincerity, and touches 
the hearts of his hearers. He is a man of devoted piety. He is active 
in Sabbath school, missionary and temperance work. He is a good 
Pastor, an indefatigable worker, a faithful undershepherd. Western 



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Penns3'lvania and Western Missouri have both been blessed by his 
abundant labors as a faithful servant of Jesus Christ/^ He was twice 
Moderator of the Synod of Missouri. 



WILLIAM E. FULTOI^r. 

The many changes of Presbyterial lines in the territory now cover- 
ed by this Presbytery have thrown some of those most prominent in 
the history of the Presbytery itself outside of its present limits for all 
or nearly all their ministry. Such was the case with the Eev. W. R. 
Fulton, whose only regular work within our bounds was the supply for 
six months in 1852 of the churches of Independence and Six Mile. 
Yet, without changing his Presbyterial relation, his next charge was 
in Oregon, Holt county, where he remained until after that portion 
of the State was separated from this, which became the Pres- 
bytery of Lafayette in 1857. Later, in 1860, he became a member 
of the Presb3^tery of Lafayette, located in Greenfield, Dade county, 
from which point he did for many years a wide missionary work in 
addition to his own pastoral labors. Without changing his field, life 
became a member of the Presbytery of Southwest Missouri at its organ- 
ization in 1865, and of the Presbytery of Ozark at its organization in 
1870. 

Wherever located, he was always prominent in the deliberations of 
his Presb^^tery and active in the organization of churches. His min- 
istry was fruitful of revivals in his own and other churches, his labors 
continuing uninterrupted until within a few days of his death. ^'He 
was always at the front in every good office and work. His age, his 
. experience, his fearlessness in denouncing wrong, made him the recog- 
nized leader in Christian work. When others faltered he was firm." 



OSCAR W. GAUSS. 

Dr. Gauss has labored many years within the bounds of the Pres- 
b3'tery of Kansas City, part of the time in the Southern connection and 
part of the time in ours. Before entering the Presbytery of Osage he 
had been for nine years Pastor of the church at Boonville, now belong- 
ing to the Presbytery of Lafayette (U. S.) . While with us he did good 
work for four years as Pastor in Jefferson City, and for four years as 
Chaplain of the Penitentiary there. He is again a resident among us, 
being now (1900) the Pastor of the Belmont chapel in Kansas City,, 
and the Moderator of the Synod of Missouri (U. fe.). It is a singular 
instance of fraternity that his brother, the Rev. J. H. Gauss of St. 
Louis, is at the same time the Moderator of the Synod of Missouri (U. 
S. A.). These brethren have both worked in both Synods, and are as 
good an instance as could be found of the impossibility of distir*- 
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Presbyterians all belong to the same family and are doing the same 
work, even though they may not all dwell in the same house. 

The Committee on History in Kansas City Presbytery is in- 
debted to Dr. Gauss for the loan of the original records of fhe Presby- 
tery of Upper Missouri, of which he is the Stated Clerk, and for other 
valuable assistance in the preparation of this volume. 



HIKAM PLUMMER GOODRICH. 

The church at Jeffjgrson City has had among its Pastors some of 
the strong men of the denomination in this State. One of these was 
Dr. Goodrich, a distinguished scholar, an able professor, a zealous 
Evangelist, a champion of Old School orthodoxy, a loved Pastor, ''win- 
ning souls to Christ, building churches and working with apostolic 
zeal.'" The best notice of him we have seen is that published soon after 
his death in the St. Louis Presbyterian. We give it entire: 

"The death of such a man as he whose name heads this communi- 
cation demands more than an ordinary obituary notice. I ask therefore 
that you will give room for a few thoughts and facts about liim, from 
one who, for two years and a half, enjoyed his instructions in the Theo- 
logical Seminary, and for many years his friendship and co-operation 
in the Gospel ministrv. A strong personal attachment and the recollec- 
tion of many acts of kindness will doubtless color my conceptions of 
his talents and piety; but I endeavor to say nothing but what will be 
sustained by all who knew him as intimately as I have done. 

"He belonged to a family illustrious in the records of literature 
and religion, of which many interesting and instructive anecdotes may 
be found in the 'Life and Times of Peter Parley.^ His Puritan ances- 
try contributed almost equally to these two great departments, and of- 
ten the same man, bearing the honored family name, laid inestimable 
tributes on the closelv associated altars of a pure literature and a pure 
faith. There is a pulpn in 'New England that was supplied by mem- 
bers of the family for one hundred and fifty years ; and Peter Parley 
states that he had twelve own cousins in the ministry. 

"Such associations would almost necessarily turn his attention to 
both letters and piety. But his first devotion was to the former of 
these family pursuits. Although surrounded by difficulties resulting in 
his early orphanage, lie surmounted them all to secure a liberal educa- 
tion, which he pursued with an ardor so self-forgetful as to produce 
temporary blindness, and permanent derangement of the visual organs. 
His progress was commensurate with his zeal, and in a remarkably 
short time he was prepared to enter Union College, where he graduated 
with distinction. 

"Fired with ambition, he directed his attention to the study of the 
law, which he prosecuted for a year and a half, under the auspices of 
Judges Kent and Story and Chancellor Kent. But the claims of per- 
sonal religion could not fail to be felt by one in his circumstances, 



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though those claims were long postponed from the fear that, if he be- 
came a Christian, he must needs abandon his bright hopes of wealth 
and distinction, and preach the G-ospel. But finally this temptation was 
overcome, and he gave himself up to Christ and the ministry of recon» 
ciliation. With a view to the work of a Foreign Missionary, he entered 
the Seminary at Princeton, and shaped his studies to this end till he 
was constrained by prostrated health to abandon his cherished purpose. 
In his closing year in the Seminary, he was recommended by Dr. Alex- 
ander, to his friend. Dr. John H. Kice, who was then engaged in found- 
ing Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. He was at once chosen 
to the Professorship of Oriental Literature in that flourishing institu- 
tion, and gave such assistance in his responsible post that Dr. Eice 
wrote to Dr. Alexander that he was 'worth his weight in gold.' 

"Anxious to meet Ihe high expectations his brilliant debut had 
awakened, he was accustomed to study as much as fourteen hours a 
day. And possessing a remarkable facility in acquiring and retaining 
knowledge, he soon gained a familiar acquaintance with Latin, Greek, 
Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac and Arabic. But not satisfied with these 
studies, that ministered directly to the purposes of his Professorship, 
lie directed his mind to the physical sciences and kept fully abreast 
with the march of the day in these departments. I am acquainted 
with no clergyman whose knowledge was so varied as that of Dr. Good- 
rich. 

"In addition he was at this period a very popular and highly use- 
ful preacher. His ministrations were eagerly sought for and highly 
prized — preaching in pulpits that had been filled by the Hoges, Alex- 
anders, Laceys and Rices — for there were 'giants in those days, men of 
renown.' 

"But the painful dissentions of 1837-8 led him to resign his Pro- 
fessorship. He was at once called to the Vice-Presidency, and soon 
after to the Presidenc}', of Marion College^ Missouri, and after the fail- 
ure of that scheme, laid the foundations of the church in Jefferson 
City. He came to St. Louis, and was the means of establishing the 
Westminster * church. The latter portion of his ministry was 
spent in Carondelet, where he again founded a church — so that there 
are at least three churches in the Synod of Missouri that owe their ex- 
istence to his labors. 

"It would be extremely difficult to give a correct and adequate 
description of his character to one who had never seen him in his prime. 
There was about him a Protean versatility that almost defies analysis. 
The grave and the gay — the witty and the profound — the highest 
speculations of the philosopher — the minutest trivialities of social life 
— were curiously blended in him. His vast and varied knowledge was 
associated with great communicativeness and with a womanly delicacy 
and depth of affection that made him one of the most instructive and 
delightful companions that I have ever known. His conversation was 

♦Westminister seemsi to have been a favorite name witli hirn. It was he that su.£?- 
srested the name Westminister for the Synod's Colles^e at Fulton. 
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often more rich and brilliant than his public discourses. One of the 
most eminent and able Ministers of our time, who was intimately asso- 
ciated with nim in his labors as a Professor, thus describes him : 'He 
introduced me to the fields of literature. I have often viewed with 
delight the scintillations of his conversation, as they sparkled from 
his lips. Some of them burst and fell, but among them were bright, 
rich gems. * * * When with those he thought did not like him, he wilted 
down * * * but when sure of the love of those around him, he glowed 
and shone as a seraph. To love and to be loved seemed neces- 
sary to his nature and to his usefulness.' 

"With such a character, it will at once be seen that he was the 
light and joy of his own family circle, and that his absence is mourned 
by his widow and children as few have been mourned. 

"His end was peaceful and triumphant. He met the announce- 
ment of his near dissolution without fear, and died, committing his 
loved ones to a covenant-keeping God. 

"He had among his literary labors a large and comprehensive 
Greek Lexicon, and an elaborate work on Church Government. Both 
of these were nearly if not quite ready for the press. 

"He was born in Eichmond, Mass., Dec. 6, 1800, and died in 
Carondelet, Mo., May 17, 1858. 'Blessed are the dead that die in the 
Lord * * * for they rest from their labors, and their works do follow 
them.' S. J. P. A.'' 



'E^OS M. HALBERT. 

The first man ordained by the reorganized Presbytery of Osage 
after the Civil War was one who had been a Candidate under the old 
Presbytery of Osage, nearly ready for ordination when the war came 
on. He is one of the two spoken of in the letter from L. R. Morrison 
found on another page. He said of himself that his education was ob- 
tained at North Prairie Institute, Hickory county, Mo., Rev. John Mc- 
Millan, Principal; and that his tneological studies were pursued "on 
horseback and at home, teaching self, S. AV. Mo.'' From 18-13 to 186& 
he was a "farmer, miller, student, soldier, merchant in S. W. Mo. ' 
His work in the churches was almost all in the limits of the present 
Presbytery of Ozark. His only work in the limits of this Presbytery 
was in the churches of Mt. Sajem and Calhoun, Henry county. 

An interesting account of the N^orth Prairie church (not now in 
the limits of this Presbytery) is given by the Rev. John M. Brown, 
(then recently returned from the Union army) in the Presbytery Be- 
porter, Feb., 1866, p. 42. In it he says: "Dr. Halbert, the patriarch 
of the neighborhood, and one of the leading men of this section, to- 
gether with his son are Elders in the church. He (Dr. H.) and four 
sons were in the Union army as soldiers. One of these sons, not the 
Elder, at the outbreak of the rebellion had been studying some years 
with the ministry in view, and under the care of the old Presbytery 



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of the Osage. He was expecting to be licensed at tlieir meeting in 
tne spring oi IbGi ; but tney naa so nmcii to do to encourage rebeiiion, 
no time was iounci to look after their Candidate for tire ministry. 
Thus, dropped by his spiritual fathers, he entered the Union Army, 
served his tliree years with honor, and now, on the return of peace, 
longs to preach the Gospel. Bro. Taylor, who has known him for 
years, ana myself told him to go ahead. We also constituted ourselves 
a kind of provisional Presbytery, received him as a Candidate, directed 
him as to his studies, and expect to license him next spring, as one 
of the first acts of our reconstructed Presbytery." An interesting ac- 
count of the meeting of Presbytery at which he was ordained is given 
by Synodical Missionary Norton, in the same volume, page 537. 



ISAAC WILLIAM KER HANDY. 

Nevin's Encyclopaedia says : "Dr. Handy was a man of clear and 
strong convictions, and of great tenacity of purpose, yet kind, genial 
and gentle in his intercourse with all around him. He pos- 
sessed excellent endowments, and they were well cultivated and wisely 
used. He was a warm-hearted friend. His manners were vivacious, 
genial and winning. Although decided in his own views, his senti- 
ments and conduct were generous and liberal He had a wide- 

and well-earned reputation for accurate research. As a Christian he 
was eminent, possessing genuine humility, strong faith, ardent hope- 
As a minister, he ever watched for souls. His own heart and soul 
were ever enlisted in the service of Christ." 

In preparing this history the compiler has tried as far as possi- 
ble to get contemporary matter as the basis at least of what is said 
about the various Ministers and churches. The letter given below 
is long and not as concise as we could desire, though full of matters 
of interest, even aside from its autobiographical character. It is in- 
serted with some hesitation on account of a marginal postscript 
which reads : "I have scratched off all this in great haste, and do not 
wish it to appear as from me." However, the letter is given as orig- 
inally written, inasmuch as it appears that the haste has not spoiled 
the story, and that those alluded to, including the writer, are all long 
since passed to a better world. There is nothing in it which the writer 
or anyone else need be ashamed of making known, 

"Portsmouth, Ya., Mar. 3, 1860. 

"Rev. T. Hill : 

"Dear Brother, — I am glad you are contemplating a History of 
the Presbyterian Churches of Missouri. There is much to be said, and 
much of great interest. Now is the time to gather up the material; 
and your long residence in the State, and other qualifications, fit you 
peculiarly for the work. 

"* * * * I may say briefly, in answer to your several ques- 



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tions : That I was born in the City of Washington, D. C, on the 15th 
of December, 1815. My rndimental education was received in vari- 
ous schools in my native city; at 'Charlotte Hall Academy/ in St. 
Mary^s county, Maryland; and at Cambridge, in Dorchester county, 
Md. In Washington 1 was a pupil of Mr. S. P. Chase, now the Hon. 
S. P. Chase, Governor of Ohio. Mr. C. was then a student of law, 
with the Hon. Wm. Wirt, and Principal of a 'Select Classical Semi- 
nary.' Among his pupils Were the sons of Mr. Wirt; Hon. Sam. A. 
Southard, Secretary of the Navy; Hon. Henry Clay, then Secy, of 
State; Peter Lenox, Esq., Mayor of the City; and of Peter Hagner, 
Esq., Fifth Auditor of the Treasury. 

"My collegiate studies were pursued at Jefferson College, Pa., 
where I graduated in 1834. I entered the Theological Seminary at 
Princeton, N. J., in 1835, being then just nineteen years of age, and 
the youngest man in the Seminary. The degree of A.M. was con- 
ferred at Jefferson in three years after my graduation. I was li- 
censed to preach the Gospel by the Presbytery of the District of Co- 
lumbia, in the Bridge Street Church, Georgetown, now the Rev. Dr. 
Brocock's, on the . . . day of April, 1838, and was ordained by the 
Presbytery of Lewes, at Berlin, Md., on the 23d of November, 1838, 
and installed pastor of the united churches of Buckingham and Black- 
water, the first of these churches being in Worcester county, on the 
east shore of Maryland, and the other eighteen miles distant, in Sus- 
sex county, Del. The sermon was preached by the Rev. John Mc- 
Knight of Philadelphia, from Ps. 122 :l-4. 

"I remained with the church at Berlin (Buckingham), the church 
at Blackwater having been dropped a year after I took charge of it, 
for about six years; and becoming deeply interested in the loud calls 
for Ministers at the West, I left my field in Maryland, and removed my 
family to Paducah, Ky., where I arrived August the 18th, 1844. At 
this place application was made to the American Home Missionary So- 
ciety for aid, which was refused without assigning a reason ; but which, 
I presume, was done on account of my wife^s being the nominal holder 
of some two or three young servants given her by her father. The 
conduct of the Society in New York aroused the feeling of the breth- 
ren in Kentucky, and a severe newspaper war like to have been con- 
sequent. It was only prevented by certain good brethren at the North, 
who begged that the matter might be winked at, because of peculiar 
circumstances in connection with the condition of the Board, i. e., so 
much of the support coming from abolition quarters. 

"The Board of New York having thus refused aid, the Home Mis- 
sionary Society of Kentucky came to my relief; and for about six 
months ] was engaged in missionary services in the southwestern part 
of the State, residing first at Paducah, and then at Blandville, in Bal- 
lard county. 

"Experiencing great difficulty as it regards support, I wrote to 
Bro. Bullard about the destitutions in Missouri and received a press- 
ing invitation to go to that state. And on the 7th of March, 1845, 



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through the iiiliueuce of my dear Bro. Bulla rd, I received an appoint- 
ment from the Missouri Home Missionary Society to act as G-eneral 
Missionary Agent for the State, with the privilege of locating when- 
igver I should find a field more important than the agency itself. I 
entered upon my work immediately and traveled over about fifty coun- 
ties of the State. 

"I removed my family to Warsaw, Mo., about the middle of June, 
1845, and located there, the population being at that time not quite 
1,000. Eev. James Gallaher had been there some time before me, and 
had organized a little church which had been left to die. I had an 
acquaintance there who had been settled in the place a few years, and 
was in successful business as a merchant. This person was Mr. Wil- 
liam Ayres, of the firm of White & xiyres. He with his partner were 
very anxious for my settlement in the place, and it was mainly through 
the influence manifested by them that I was induced to locate there. 

"At the time of my first visit to Warsaw, it was very rarely that 
a Minister of any denomination passed through the place ; and then it 
was a rare thing with that people to hear a Gospel sermon. I was in- 
formed also that there were not thirty professors of religion of all de- 
nominations in the city, for it was even then an incorporated city. I 
preached to a crowd in the court house, and after sermon I passed out 
of the house confidently expecting someone to knock me beside the 
head — such was the mixed multitude to whom I had preached. My 
apprehensions were greatly aroused in consequence of the mob spirit 
that had long been prevailing in that community. In three years 
eleven murders had been committed in the count}^, and not one of the 
guilty persons had been brought to justice. One of them was then at 
large in the community and came to hear that first sermon. I was 
afterwards informed that he was greatly pleased; and this statement 
was corroborated by a subscription of $5 toward my support. 

"When I first went to Warsaw, I had a letter of introduction to 
Mr. John Dunn, a member of the Presbyterian Church, who was keep- 
ing hotel in that place. I was put in a room the first night with some 
half a dozen or more persons, and in the night was disturbed by one 
groaning as if in g-reat distress. After awhile he called my name, 
and earnestlv inquired if I would not come and preach statedly in 
Warsaw. At that time I did not think seriously of making my resi- 
dence there, but the appeals of the man were so urgent and the picture 
which he presented of the moral destitution of the community so ap- 
palling, that I told him if God should make the way clear I would be 
willing to relinquish my agency and become a settled Pastor in Warsaw. 

"The next morning the man who had spoken to me and myself 
were the last persons to leave the room. After dressing he went to 
the bedside, and turning over his pillow, took therefrom a pistol and 
a dirlc, saying as he did so : 'You may be surprised at this after what 
^as passed between us; but the truth is, sir, if I were without these 
weapons, I could not pass down these streets without being a dead man 
before night.' The amount of the whole matter was that this person 



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had been an officer of police during the confusion among the 'SUckers 
and Anti-Slickers/ and being active in the discharge of liis duties, 
had brought upon himself an unusual amount of odium among the 
disorderly. 

"The day after I preached my first sermon, a paper was circulated 
among the citizens to see what could be done toward getting up a 
salary. White & Ayres headed the subscription with $50, and in a 
few hours some $250 were pledged. This was enough to assure me of 
what could be done. Bro. Jones of Henry county (formerly a Mis- 
sionary among the Osages) happened to be in Warsaw about the time 
of my visit; and at once he joined me in a petition for aid from the 
Missouri Home Missionary Society, as a Missionary at Warsaw ; which, 
being presented, was responded to with equal promptness and cor- 
diality. 

"I remained at Warsaw until May, 1848, my wife having deceased 
on the 29th of February. During the period of niy residence there, 
great changes were effected. The church considerably increased in 
numbers, and secured the confid'ence of the community. Many of 
the wild and desperate characters whom I found in the place upon my 
arrival moved awav. The city became an orderly and quiet place. A 
new house of worship, the first that had ever been erected in the place, 
was put up ; and at the time of my leaving, the congregation was in a 
prosperous and thriving condition. 

"It may interest you to know something about the manner in 
which we secured the erection of our fine brick building, as we, at 
that time, considered it. It was thought by many that no effort to build 
a house could possibly succeed. Nothing daunted, however, I went 
around among the people with a paper; and, calling upon all the citi- 
zens, whether members of the congregation or not, I requested them 
to give me wliat they could, in money, materials for building, produce, 
or any article whatever that could be spared. The success was beyond 
my expectations. Some gave money, some paper, some cirpenter 
work, some cabinet work, one a lot, but not suitable for the building, 
one leather, one tailor's work, etc. After we had secured the largest sub- 
scription possible, we advertised for proposals. Several builders put 
in their bids ; but that which seemed most satisfactory to the commit- 
tee was a proposal from a. Mr. Davis, the very man who had so anx- 
iouslv entreated me to locate at Warsaw, and whose case I have men- 
tioned. He consented to take the paper for lust what the face of it 
presented, and afterwards in paying his hands, he turned the tailor- 
ing, furniture, leather, etc., etc.. just as circumstances needed. We 
received $666 from the Church Extension Fund, and T got some fur- 
ther assistance from abroad. There was a small debt on the church, 
I think, when I left. 

"When I commenced this, I onlv intended to sav that at a future 
time I would send vou some pn-i'tV-nlars : but mv mind and pen have 
run on unconsciouslv. None of this is intended for publication as I 
send it to you. Take wh^t you please of it; and if anything: more is 



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needed in this style, let me know. 1 would refer yon to the Christian 
Observer for July or August, IS-iT, for a full and interesting letter 
of Bro. Bullar'd, m which he gives some items that will be of value to 
you in your work. He there gives an account of my relation to the 
church at Warsaw and of my success with other matters of moment. 
If you can have access to old files of the Observer for 1845-6-7, you 
will find other letters of value from myself and other brethren, giving 
some account of missionary tours, and presenting the condition of 
the several fields in Missouri at thbse dates.* 

"Bro. Bullard wrote an article about the indifference of the Board 
in New York to the destitutions m Missouri, which was published in 
the Observer, and which you ought to see.* 

"Your friend and brother, 

"Isaac W. K. Handy/^ 



GEOEGE AVILLIAM HAELAX. 

A short account of the good work done by this brother at Osce- 
ola is given in the sketch of that church. He is one of the few men 
now living who can speak from personal knowledge of the original 
Osage Presbytery, by which he was ordained in 1856. The following 
letter in reply to a request for reminiscences modestly omits mention 
of his own work, but gives interesting information concerning some of 
whom we have not been able to obtain so full an account elsewhere. 

"Farmington, Mo., Nov. 19, 1900. 

•^I have deferred this reply in order that I might find data 
to refresh my memory, and thus give you the information you 
desire. In this respect I am somewhat disappointed, yet will report 
such items as I have. [Here follows a list of the members of Pres- 
byterv and of the churches at the time of his ordination, taken from 
the M. G. A., 1859.] Of these brethren the Morrisons, McMillan, 
Taylor and Eicketts were from Tennessee ; and all, I think, students 
of theology under Dr. Anderson of Maryville, whom they greatly ad- 
mired. W. H. Smith was an eastern man, and at the secession of the 
Preshvtery in 1857 adhered to the New School Assemblv. A. Jones 
and William C. Eequa were originallv connected with the Harmony 
Mission among the Osage Indians. J. V. Barks and I became con- 
nected with the Lafayetfe Presbyterv of the Old School Assembly, IT. 
S. A. It is mv impression that A. Jones and W. C. Eequa also joined 
the same Presbyterv. The others were received under the care of the 
Ignited Synod of the Presbyterian Church, TJ. S. A., which was con- 
stituted in 1857 by certain svnods in the Southern States, who, being 
aggrieved by the action of the New School Assembly of Mav 1857 on 
the subiect of slavery, seceded. 

^^Of these brethren, the Eev. Joseph Y. Barks and Levi E. Mor- 



*The Committee refrrets not havinj? aeee?s to the files mentioned. 



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rison were very efficient. The former came from Andover Seminary 
after his graduation, with his young wife, to Warsaw, Mo., in the fall 
of 1848, took charge of the Presbyterian church of that place, and 
there remained until 1863, fifteen years. Then, owing to the disrup- 
tion of the church, arising from the conflicts of the Civil War, he left, 
and took charge of Lick Creek church in Palmyra Presbytery. He ex- 
celled in pastoral work ; being a good judge of human nature, he knew 
how to approach people and influence them for good. As a preacher 
he was instructive, plain and practical in his sermons, and had the 
virtue of brevity, always securing and holding the attention of his 
hearers, so that to people of all classes he was most acceptable and use- 
ful. During the period of his connection with this Presbytery, he did a 
good work in building up a strong church at Warsaw, also in evangel- 
istic labors at various places in this Presbytery, in all parts of which 
he was well and favorably known, being highly esteemed for his de- 
voted piety and faithful labors as a Minister of the Gospel. The mem- 
ory of [these labors] is very precious, and their influence will never 
perish. 

"Rev. L. R. Morrison had charge of the North Prairie church, 
Hickory county, during his entire connection with this Presbytery 
some ten or fifteen years, as I cannot give dates of his reception, which 
was some years prior to 1854, when I assumed charge at Osceola. He 
remained at his home faithfully ministering to the flock under his 
care, until by military authority he was arrested as a Southern sym- 
pathizer, taken from his family and held as a prisoner. He was above 
the average as a preacher, being fluent, clear and forcible, and at times 
quite eloquent. Strong in his convictions and very decided in his 
adherence to the doctrines of the Presbyterian Church, he preached 
and defended the same with great ability. Inclined to polemics, he 
was fearless in preaching the faith once 'delivered to the saints, as he 
held it, and in controverting what he regarded as the errors of other 
systems of Theology and Church Government. At times in his repre- 
sentations of error and vice, he indulged in a strain of ridicule and 
sarcasm at which some of his hearers would be offended. He was 
distin2:uished for the ^fortiter in re' rather than for the 'suaviter in 
modo.' 

"Abundant and diligent in labors at home and abroad, he was in- 
strumental in building up a strong church at North Prairie, and in 
starting an Academy at which young men were prepared for Colleo-e. 
In response to frequent calls, he preached at vacant churches and mis- 
sion points, and, as opportunity was given, held evangelistic services 
which were greatly blessed in winning souls to Christ and strengfthen- 
mg feeble churches. His labors were interrupted by the Civil War, 
and he himself, from exposure and ill treatment as a prisoner, was 
attacked with rheumatism in so severe a form that he became a cripple 
for life, and could not walk or stand erect; so that when he preached, 
which he continued to do as long as he lived, he was seated in a chair. 
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and afflictions allotted him, until the end came; and on Dec. 29th, 
1867, in the G3d year of his age, being released from his labors and 
sufferings by death^ he was called to his reward. His life and labors 
are held in grateful remembrance. Their influence is of inestimable 
value and will never die. * * * * 

Of the late l^ev. Dr. Timothy Hill, long the Secretary of the 
Missouri Home Missionary Society, and afterwards its President and 
the first Synodical Missionary, he writes : "My recollection of your fa- 
ther is very pleasing. I think of him as associated with the Rev. Dr. 
Artemas Bullard, so long Superintendent of Home Missions in the 
New School Synod of Missouri. They were kindred spirits, so zealous 
and indefatigable amid great discouragements in the prosecution of 
their great and good work, always cheerful and hopeful, ever ready to 
give counsel and aid to Home Missionaries under, their care, of whom I 
was one. What a good example they set us ! May we have grace to 
follow it ! * * * * * 

"P. S. — You ask respecting the Minutes of Osage Presbytery. 
Bro. Morrison was Stated Clerk in 1859, and until dissolution of the 
Presbytery. After his death, the family moved to Texas, so I cannot 
tell where the records are — perhaps lost.*' 



GEORGE PRICE HAYS. 

It is needless in the space at our disposal to attempt to present 
an adequate sketch of so many-sided a character as that of Dr. Hays. 
Certainly none of the various sketches that we have seen, prepared as 
most of them were soon after his death, does anything more than to 
present some of the more salient features of a life remarkable in every 
way. Among those memorials none is more vigorous or brilliant than 
that of Dr. H. D. Jenkins, delivered (on the Sabbath following the 
death of Dr. Hays) in the pulpit so long occupied by Dr. Hays in 
Kansas City. He said : 

"It is but natural that my thoughts should be preoccupied with 
the life work of the one who preceded me in this pulpit, and who has 
now so recently been taken from us, a brother faithful and beloved, 
who has occupied many positions of power in the Church, and who had 
been honored as the first officer in a denomination upwards of a million 
strong. He was widely known upon the platform and in the execu- 
tive chambers of various councils both at home and abroad; but I 
doubt if he would ask for any more honorable epitaph than the words 
which I have chosen for a text this morning : 'A good minister of Jesus 
Christ? He had that appreciation of popular apnlause which belongs 
to the born orator, yet to it he never sacrificed truth or conscience ; he 
possessed that ability for organization which caused the Church to 
seek his aid in most important movements, and to look to him for 
advice in critical moments, yet I do not believe that any friends of his 
ever thought of him as ambitious to excel in mere oratory or adminis- 



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tration. He w.as ab»vays at his best in the pulpit, and nothing so 
aroused him to the full exercise of his brilliant ^ifts as the defense 
•of the i^rofession m which he spent his life. When the Church sougUt 
for a man who should best j^resent the lights and shadows of minis- 
terial experience, it turned to him and intrusted him with the diflficuit 
task. And those of us who heard him during that campaign in behalt 
of aged and worn-out ministers, know how near to his iieart the work 
and life of the ministry lay. By his own instincts, by his conscious 
choice, and by all the studies of his later years, he was pre-eminently 
a minister; and by his achievements he showed himself to be 'A Good 
Minister of Jesus Christ,' — 'His theme divine; his office sacred; his 
•credentials elear.^ 

''Xor is this light praise. No class has a higher ideal to main- 
tain, none a more difficult task to discharge. No other profession re- 
quires such blending of the s])iritual and the practical. To constitute 
a good minister of Jesus Christ recjuires at once the greatest heavenly- 
mindedness and the most temperate earthly prudence, the enthusiasm 
of a zealot and the self-restraint of a philosopher. In a good minister 
the most contradictory elements meet and strengthen rather than de- 
stroy each other — the wisdom of the serpent joining naturally with 
the innocence of the dove, the hand being chilled iron hut the glove 
silk velvet. 

''And it ouoht to be said first of all that Dr. Hays was a good 
minister of Jesus Christ by his virile personality. It is true of a min- 
ister as of a poet that he is, if of the best class, 'born, not made.' You 
can make ministers of a certain class out of anything, but a good min- 
ister requires that for his makeup which no art can supply. * * * * 
Whatever faults Dr. Hays may have had — and that he had faults was 
evident to himself and to his friends — they were never such as evinced 
a lack of courage, of independence, of persistence. Like the great 
'War President. Abraham Lincoln, whom in many personal traits he 
resembled, the problems of life wert' to him too grave to permit much 
thought of the problems of raiment. He had a liearty contempt for 
the millinery of the profession ; and if lie had been given his choice for 
pulint use between the Baptist's camel's hair coat or the ritualist's silk- 
embroidered stole, he would have taken the camel's hair garment every 
time. It was this vigorous, ao^o-ressive, martial personality which pre- 
eminentlj fitted him from birth to be 'a good minister of Jesus Christ.' 

"But in the second place, he was such a minister as Paul wished 
Timothy to be. bv clearness of faith and tenacity of conviction. In a 
dav when many ministers do not know either the philosophical basis 
of their creed or the logical defences of their confession, he Imew both. 
He was not a Calvinistic minister with ^ni Arminian explanation of 
his tenets, nor a Presbyterian Pastor with leanings toward Prelacv. 
He was as consistent as John Knox, and as firm on his feet as Martin 
Luther at the Diet of Worms. He had given not simplv a cursory 
honr to the great problems which underlie these distinctions, but he 
had given long years of honest and patient study to the contrasted 



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philosophies from which creeds arise ; and lie not only knew to which 
Church he belonged, but he knew why he was where ne was, and why 
he could be notnmg else. The ^reat intellectual battlefields of the 
past were famdiar ground to him, and from Augastin to McCosh lu 
knew the teachings of the Church and the reasons therefor. A^o one 
can read his clear exposition of the creed of his own denomination, in 
his history of his Church, without feeling that this man was a scholar 
who had sounded the depths of the deepest problems that employ the 
mind. His conviction of the absolute sovereignty of God was as 'rock- 
ribbed and ancient as the hills.' It rested on his conception of the 
Divine Personality and the necessary attributes of the Absolute. His 
creed was not a coat that he might cut to suit the times, but (as it 
ought to be with every Minister of middle life) it was the form in 
which the studies and conclusions of thirty years naturally crystallized. 



"Dr. Hays was a good minister of Jesus Christ by the catholicity 
of his spirit and the charity of his life. * * * Presbyterian as he was 
by birth, education and personality, there is not in any part of his 
controversial writings the slightest trace of what is commonly called 
the 'odium theologicum' or sectarian bitterness. To him the writers 
-and preachers who intelligently held and courteously defended their 
own denominational lines were worthy of respect — far more w^orthy 
of respect than men who neither understood nor cared for their dis- 
tinctive symbols. 

"There are natures to which charity or its counterfeit seems not 
difficult, because they take nothing seriously. * * * They can toler- 
ate all views because they can consistently defend none. But it was 
not so with the late Pastor of this church. He was as fixed as granite, 
but as kindly toward those who differed from him as St. Paul: and 
his book, issued during one of the most heated controversies of our 
Church, bears no trace of the disturbances of the time in which it was 
written. I have five well-known histories of American Presbyterian- 
ism upon my shelves ; and that of Dr. Hays, vigorously as he wrote and 
firmly as he held his own convictions upon all subjects, is the one dis- 
tinguished above the rest for its impartiality and catholicity. He 
loved his own Church as he loved his country and its flag; but that 
did not prevent a tribute of honest praise to men who differed from 
him. but who could state the reason why they differed and whv they 
held themselves apart. I believe his work upon the principles and noli- 
tv of our denomination will take precedence of others more pretentious, 
for the best' of all reasons, that its spirit accords with the spirit of the 
Gospel and its method presents our view^ while not disparasring or 
TnisrepresentinsT the views of other denominations. 

"And now. in conclusion, it is my privilege to acknowledge my 
personal oblio-ations to him for the foundations which he laid and the 
work which he left to mv hands to carry on, under the Master Builder 
to whom we are both accountable. He came to this church in a di^- 
<^ult — he remained with it through a critical — period. It is a simple 



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matter to be a prosperous merchant upon a rising market, or to be 
known as a great financier when all winds blow toward a favorable 
port. But when Dr. Hays took charge of the interests of this churchy 
he had to face the first fury of the financial cyclone which was ready 
to whirl its rapid w^ay across the whole continent. For the first time in 
a third of a century the church found its resources crippled, and he, 
already past middle life and breaking in health, was called upon to 
pilot the threatened bark amid the rising waves. I do not forget the 
sacrifices of others, the counsel he received from his colleagues in the 
Session, and the aid rendered by other boards of the church; but had 
he been other than he was — had he been either selfishly ambitious or 
weakly vacillating, less true to his Master or less faithful to his peo- 
ple, I can but think the church would have suffered grave loss if not 
certain wreck. His work can only be honestly and fairly judged when 
one takes into view the unparalleled difficulties which confronted him 
and the increasing infirmities which culminated in that nervous pros- 
tration from which there was no recovery and only the relief of death. 

Upon the dissolution of his loastorate in the Second Chaich, ap- 
propriate and very feeling resolutions were passed by the church itself^ 
which were transmitted to the Presbytery and by it recorded as a part 
of its minutes. In addition to these the Presbytery adopter! re-o!utions 
of its own, in which it said (in part) : ^'The Presbytery * * " in dis- 
solving the pastoral relation * * * desires to place on record its high 
appreciation of the lahors of Dr. Hays, both as Pastor and a^ Presbyter, 
and its regret that this dissolution has been rendered necessary by his 
failing health. Even when prudence demanded moderation, zeal for 
his Master's work both at home and abroad rendered it impossi])le for 
him to neglect the exacting duties of a large and influential city pastor- 
ate, the frequent calls for special services by various Boards, Presby- 
teries, Synods and the General Assembly, the preparation of an elab- 
orate presentation of the historical and present position and influence 
of Presbyterianism, and earnest participation in numerous other im- 
portant enterprises." 

The foregoing quotations tell much about Dr. Hays, but they do 
not mention such of his prominent characteristics as his ready wit, 
his unusual powers of debate, his peculiar geniality, his wide and up- 
to-date information, his accessibility to all that sought him — traits 
that made him 'a favorite in the home and on the platform. They 
do not tell of the importance of the churches he served before coming 
among us, nor of the eleven years spent as President of Washington 
and Jefferson College, where he had an important part in training 
many of those now most prominent in the Church and State. They 
do not speak of the many thousands of dollars he succeeded in raising 
for Wooster University and for his own Colles^e, nor of the $600,000 he 
raised in 1888 for the Board of Ministerial Relief. They pay nothing 
about his last trip abroad, when he led a party (composed mainly of 
those that had been his parishioners) during a tour of Europe, Egvpt 



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and Palestine. They do not remind us of his early consecration of 
himself to the Foreign Mission field, which physicians thought him 
not strong enough to enter, nor of his distinguished advocacy of Mis- 
sions both at home and abroad. They do not recall the sorrowing sym- 
pathy with which thousands heard from time to time the news from the 
friends at his side during those last four years of utter prostration 
and nervous wreck of the one who had so abundantly won their re- 
spect and love. These and similar characteristics will long keep his 
memory fresh and his name revered. 



CONKAD H. HECKMANK. 

The proportion of Germans in the limits now covered by the Pres- 
bytery of Kansas City has nevjer been large as compared with that in 
other portions of the State. What few there are have affiliated mainly 
with other denominations than Presbyterians. What might have been 
done among them if the work carried on by the Kew School Church 
among them had not been interrupted by the Civil War, cannot, of 
course, be said. But we find that a work begun by the Rev. C. H. Heck- 
mann about 1850 grew to require all his time and that of one or two 
others, who formed several organizations under the care of the Presby- 
tery of Lexington, mainly within the present limits of the Presbytery 
of Platte. One of the organizations to which Mr. Heokmann minis- 
tered was that of the Westport, now a part of Kansas City, which was 
for a time quite flourishing. He preached occasionally in Independ- 
ence also, though we have found no trace of a German organization 
there. 

A letter from him in the July Home Missionary, 1850, tells of 
his work : "Though the weather has been stormy, an'd the river some- 
times high, I have still been enabled to meet all the appointments in 
my widely extended circuit. My heart feels grateful to God who has 
kept and guided me, and has given me such good health. I never had 
supposed I could under 2^0 such hardships ; but God^s promise has been 
verified, 'My grace is sufficient for thee.^ I have administered the 
Sacrament in all my appointments this quarter. The members have 
almost all presented themselves at the Lord^s table. Some who were 
excluded for ill conduct at other times have repented, confessed and re- 
turned to dut}^, and (I trust) to God. In Westport I baptized a lady 
of 25 years, the first adult I ever baptized. * * * At most of my ap- 
pointments things look encouraging, but there is need of having 
preaching oftener among the people, and another preacher is very much 
needed in this region of country. I cannot give up any portion of mj 
field while the people are so earnest to have the ordinances of the Gos- 
pel among them. * * During the past year I have circulated forty 
Bibles, baptized more than one hundred children, and have made 
many hearts glad by being the instrument of preaching the Gospel to 
some who have not heard it for 3^ears. Had it not been for the wise 



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designs and expanded benevolence of the American Home Missionary 
Society, they would not have now heard it, nor perhaps for many 
years to come. In the Judgment many will rise up to call those blessed 
who have contributed for its widespread usefulness." 



JOHN HEREON. 

Before coming to this Presbytery, Mr. Herron had already es- 
tablished a high ministerial reputation, as may be seen from the notice 
of him in Nevin's Encyclopsedia. That reputation he well sustained 
the few years he was at Sedalia, where he supplied the First church, 
1887-8, and the Broadway church, after the consolidation of the First 
church with it, until the churches again separated at the time of the 
formation of the Central church. Nevki says of him : "His ministry 
has been largely blessed. He is an able preacher. Energetic, patient, 
abundant in labors, original in methods, pleasing in addtess, studious 
in habit, and of single and intense purpose, he is an efficient keeper of 
the trust committed to him. He is a favorite orator on popular occa- 
sions. Several of his sermons, orations and addresses have been pub- 
lished." While with ns he received the unusual honor of election to 
the moderatorship of this Presbytery during the first year of his mem- 
bership in it. His leaving was regarded as a loss to the church in Se- 
dalia and to the Presbytery at large. 



TIMOTHY HILL. 

The first part of the following sketch is taken substantially as 
given in the Encyclopaedia of the History of Missouri, which was pub- 
lished in the summer of 1901. 

"Few men have had more to do with the molding of the religious 
life of the west than the late Rev. Timothy Hill, D.D., of Kansas City, 
Tracing his ancestry along many lines to the earliest Puritan settlers 
of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay and their descendants, who proved 
their piety and their patriotism by the parts they took in the founding 
and defense of that commonwealth and of this nation, Dr. Hill through- 
out his life showed the same qualities jDf head and heart that made 
their influence so potent and far-reaching. He was born in Mason, 
N. H., June 30, 1819. His father was the Rev. Ebenezer Hill, a 
native of Boston, a graduate of Harvard College in 1786, a student of 
theology under Dr. Seth Payson of Rindge, N. H., ordained Pastor 
of the Congregational church of Mason, N. H., Nov. 1790. There 
he remained Pastor until his death, May 20, 1854. In the days when 
the Church was maintained by the Town, such long pastorates were 
more common than now. The lives of even generation after genera- 
tion of the townspeople were thus influenced bv the same man, who, 
called in youth, spent his whole ministerial life with the one people. 



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The history of the Church and its records were then largely those of 
the Town, whose most respected and prominent citizen was its minister. 
This is amply proved by the History of Mason (pp. 324) and the Mem- 
oir of the Kev. Ebenezer Hill (pp. 114), both published in 1858 by 
the late Hon. John B. Hill, of Bangor, Maine. 

^'Dr. HilFs mother, Abigail Jones (Stearns), was the third wife 
of the Kev. Ebenezer Hill, and daughter of Col. Timothy Jones, cf 
Bedford, Mass. He was the youngest child of a large and widely scat- 
ered famil}^, all trained to habits of industry, and educated tor po- 
sitions of usefulness which they long fiHed with modesty and honor. 
His own education, after leaving the home farm, was obtained at the- 
]^ew Ipswich, N. H., Academy, class of 1838, Dartmouth College, 184 i, 
and Union Theological Seminary, 1845. During and after his col- 
lege course he taught school for several years* His choice after leav- 
ing- the seminary was to go as a Foreign Missionary to India. But, 
as in the case of many others, providential causes turned his steps 
toward the Home Mission field instead. 

"In the fall of 1845 Dr. Hill was one of a company of ten young 
theologues induced by the late Dr. Artemas Bullard to locate in Mis- 
souri. His first winter was spent in Monroe county, after which he- 
settled in St. Charles. There he was ordained, Oct. 22, 1846, and re- 
mained in charge of the New School Presbyterian church from 1846 
to 1851. He then went to St. Louis, where he organized the Fair- 
mount Presbyterian church, of which he remained Pastor nntil the out- 
break of the Civil War. In 1861 he removed to Illinois, where ho 
supplied the churches of Rosemond and Shelbyville about two years 
each. In all the years of political agitation preceding and during the 
War, he was a strong Whig and later a Republican in politics, well 
known as a decided anti-slavery man in the days when .such men were 
much in the minority in Missouri. 

"At the close of the War, Dr. Hill returned to this State, settling 
in Kansas City, where he organized the Second Presbyterian church,. 
July 16, 1865. This church belonged to what was then known as the 
New School Synod of Missouri, of which its Pastor had long been a 
prominent member. For years he was the Synod's Stated Clerk and 
three times its Moderator. Through his efforts the Second church- 
was the first of the many churches organized in Kansas City after the 
War to get a house of worship, and from the start secured a foremost 
position among the churches of the city, which it has since maintained. 

"In 1868 Dr. Hill was appointed Svnodical Missionary, having 
superintendence for the Board of Home Missions over its work in th? 
Southwest. His work at first covered Missouri, Kansas, Indian Terri- 
tory ajid Texas. As the work increased he grave the States over, one 
by one, into other hands until at the time of his death in 1887 he re- 
tained the Territory only. In those nineteen years he had much to do 

*A11 his life long Dr. Hill was .ocholarly in his tastes and habits, thonjch so busy he 
could not devote himself to his studies as he longed to do. His snare moments were 
usually spent in reading the Greek Testament, the Septuagint, the Hebrew Biblf^ or the 
Vulgate. In such studies he delighted, and never allowed himself 'to grow ''rusty." 



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with the resurrection of Presbyterianism in Missouri after the War, 
and with its planting and propagation in the other States and Terri- 
tory mentioned. His work, especially in Kansas, is even yet spoken of 
as the most sncceissfiil ever done anywhere by one in his position. He 
was a born organizer, a skilled executive, a good judge of men and 
of opportunities, a zealous advocate of Presbyterian doctrine and pol- 
ity, a ready and convincing public speaker. Few commercial travelers 
of his day had so large a territory as he to visit, or covered it oftener. 
His correspondence was large and burdensome, his preaching frequent, 
his reports to the Board of Home Missions and contributions to the 
religious press numerous and important. Had he turned his atten- 
tion to secular business, he doubtless would have acquired wealth, as 
many investments made by him for others amply proved. His judg- 
ment was admired and trusted by all. No man of his day had so large 
a knowledge of the Presbyterian history of the West, or had done more 
to make it. There is great regret, therefore, that the last years of his 
life could not have been spent, as he had planned, in committing that 
history to writing. 

"On Nov. 2, 1854, Dr. Hill married, in the city of St. Louis. 
Miss Frances A. Hall, a native of Orange county, N. Y., who had been 
a student at Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary under Mary Lyon, and for 
several years a teacher in the South and in St. Louis. To her much of 
the credit is due for whatever of good he accomplished. She still sur- 
vives him, with her two sons, the Rev. John B. Hill and Henry E. 
Hill, an architect, all resident in Kansas City.^' 

No biography of Dr. Hill has ever been published, though vol- 
umes might easily have been filled with interesting and valuable bio- 
graphical matter pertaining to him, which would have been in part 
a History of the Presbyterian Church in the West. An appreciative 
memorial address was delivered before the Synod of Kansas in the 
fall of 1887, by the Rev. Dr. D. C. Milner, who spoke particularly of 
his work in Kansas, though much of what is there said applies equally 
well as to his work in this State. During all the time of his acting as 
Synodical Missionary he was a resident of Kansas City, and a mem- 
ber of this Presbytery. Dr. Milner said, in part: 

"It is interesting to note his early interest in the welfare of the 
country which was to be the scene of his principal labors. While a 
Pastor in [St. Charles and afterward in] St. Louis, years before Kan- 
sas was admitted as a State, and in the midst of the turmoil of border 
wars, he wrote for Eastern papers a number of letters defending the 
men who favored free institutions, and spoke prophetic words as to the 
future of this Territory. He came to Kansas City in 1865, and this 
interest became still greater; and when, in 1868, he was appointed 
Superintendent of Missions for the Synod of Missouri, which then in- 
cluded Kansas, he became identified with the work of the Church in 
this State for the rest of his life. He soon devoted himself entirely 
to the work of the new S3rQod of Kansas, which then embraced the In- 
dian Territory and Texas. Soon after he was released from the care 



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of Texas, but continued to the last identified with Kansas and the In- 
dian Territory. Though he closed his official relations with Kansas 
in 1885, he preserved the most intense interest in our Church affairs, 
and did much for their welfare up to the very date of his death. 

"The Presbyterian Church in Kansas is a product of Home Mis- 
sions. A very great majority of its churches have been nourished by 
the Home Boara, and its houses of worship aided by tlje Board of 
Church Erection. 

"The growth of the State of Kansas has been without a parallel. 

* * * The growth of the Presbyterian Church is also unparalleled. 

* * * During these years when the population of the State has in- 
creased six fold, the membership of the Preshyterian Church has more 
than multiplied thirteen fold. This marvelous growth has been due 
in large measure to the energy, wisdom and devotion of Dr. HiU. 
We believe that no other man has done so much for the growth of the 
Church of Christ in Kansas, as well as that of the Presbyterian Church. 
His reports as Synodical Missionary would be almost a complete his- 
tory of the Presbyterian Church in Kansas for seventeen years. We 
sometimes hear of the slowness of the Presbyterian Church. In this 
Synod it has often been in advance of all others. * * * 

"Dr. Hill had a remarkable acquaintance with every portion of 
the State. Perhaps no one man knew as much of its cities and towns, 
its soil and productions. Few men wrote more about the State; and 
the files of the English religious periodicals have many letters from 
him, not only showing the condition of religious work, but also the 
growth and resources of the State, with his confident opinions of its 
great future. 

"He had pre-eminent qualifications for his work as Superintend- 
ent of Missions. He was devoted to the Missionary idea. He has 
been well called ^a born Missionary.^ His whole clerical life of more 
than forty years was spent in Home Mission work. He had broad 
ideas of the work to be done in the West. He had studied carefully 
the question as to our exceptional populations. * * * He had not only 
planned for the rural districts and the smaller towns, but had ad- 
vanced ideas on the needs of the cities and the importance of Church 
extension in these great centers of population. He was emphatically 
a Western man, and Dr. Henry A. Nelson well styled him a Valking: 
cyclopaedia of the West.' 

"He was a man of unusual business ability. His shrewdness,, 
however, was of the wise and helpful kind, and his judgment was of 
vast value to many Church enterprises. He had a remarkable power 
in reading men and his prophecies as to the future of ministers rarely 
failed. He had a good deal of sympathy with weak men ; but he had 
no patience with the 'dead beat/ who occasionally takes the role of 
the preacher, and tries to force himself upon churches to their de- 
struction. 

"Presbyteries would have saved themselves much trouble if they 
had in some notable cases profited by his judgment. There is some- 



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times expressed a fear of the ^one man power' ; but it is especially true 
in the work of Missions that the wisdom and experience of one man 
is superior to the confused counsel of many. We hear at times of the 
need of a ^ministerial bureau^ to bring ministers and vacant churches 
together. Dr. Hill was himself such a bureau. There are many 
churches in this synod to-day that are thankful for his wisdom in 
sending them '^the right man for the right place.' 

"We may well recall some of his severe labors during the years 
he was our Synodical Missionary. Think of his long journeys, aver- 
aging at least 15,000 miles a year. Often he traveled off the rail* 
roads in stage or wagon with uncomfortable surroundings. I wel\ 
remember the first time I met him at Presbytery, which met in a littU 
cabin in Southwest Missouri. It was some 70 miles from the railroad, 
and he came on a wagon, in a great storm of snow and sleet, over roads 
almost impassible from mud. 

"His correspondence was immense, and he had no aid from stenog- 
rapher and typewriter. He was the great medium of intelligence be- 
tween ministers and churches. He visited the theological seminaries 
and urged upon them the claims of Home Mission fields. He was 
connected, directly and indirectly, with the organization of a large 
proportion of our churches and assisted at the dedication of many 
houses of worship. In his visits to our Presbyteries, how often did 
he show that he knew more about the work in their bounds than any 
member. He assisted in settling many a church quarrel. He deeply 
sympathized with ministers in their trials, and letters of tender com- 
fort from him can be found in homes of bereavement. In the later 
3^ears of his work, with advancins: age. the vast increase of the field, 
and the especial work of the Indian Territory pressing upon him, he 
could not give the same attention to individual ministers and churches 
he had done in former years. Some of those who came later to our 
vSynod did not make the proper allowance for the enormous work on 
his hands, and he was very sensitive to criticisms on the subject, and 
more than once desired Synod to relieve him of his burdens. 

"For almost three years he gave his chief attention to the work 
of Missions in the Indian Territory. Anyone who had spent an hour 
with him during these years would certainly have had presented to him 
the importance of the work. With what earnestness he would spread 
out the map of the Territory, and point out the lines of railroad 
built or projected, and show the locations of Missions and schools, with 
comments on men and measures and incidents of the work done for the 
redmen. In thinking of it now, there is something almost pathetic 
in his enthusiastic devotion to the work for the Indians. 

"We sometimes hear of a Bishop in charge of a great diocese. 
Here was a Bishop of the true Apostolic succession, and a Superin- 
tendent of Missions of Kansas. What growth, and what conquests for 
Ohrist did he witness under his administration! 

"On the 21st of May he was found dead, with his glasses in place, 
and a letter concerning Missfonary work dropped from his hands. A 



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few moments before, he looked out of a western window from the blufis 
of Kansas City that commanded a fine lookout of Kansas, and said, 
^What a splendid prospect !' His last vision of this earth with mor- 
tal eyes was that of the State for which he had an intense love and for 
which he had given so many years of labor, and his last thoughts were 
of the work among the Inaians. * * 

"The best monument we can raise to his memory is to carry on 
earnestly and faithfully the work of his life. Let this great Home 
Mission Synod press the work of church organization, and church effi- 
ciency and independence. I cannot better close this memorial than by 
using his own words : 'Stirred by the memories of the past, catching 
the mantle of those who have gone before, it becomes us to work while 
the day lasts, leaving no duty undone, knowing that our labor is not 
in vain in the Lord. Let us labor with sedulous care that we may 
transmit to those who will come after us an untarnished record, care- 
fully laying broad and deep the foundations of the Church of God, rest- 
ing on the Kock of Ages, that others may carry on our work when 
we are gone, and thus rear the glorious Church of God immovable 
forever.' 

Many more quotations it would be a pleasure and a form of filial 
piety to give ; but there can be room for only one more, which is from 
the remarks of Dr. C. L. Thompson at his funeral: 

"Dr. Hill was a born Missionary. It can be truthfully said of 
him that he organized and helped to organize more Presbyterian 
churches in this country than any other man.* * * The last rich 
months of his life he lived for the Indian Territory ; and that last long 
journey to the East, fatiguing, as it proved to be beyond his strength, 
was undertaken in part * * * that he might once more plead before 
the Board of Missions the claims of the Indian work. His love for 
the work at the closing days was a touching reminder of the Foreign 
Missionary zeal of his student days. Thus his desire to preach to 
the heathen was reached at last ; and he illustrated in his work the sen- 
timent he expressed in print only a few months ago, when he said: 
'Foreign Missions and Home Missions are so blended that no man can 
tell where the one ends and the other begins ; and no man who is not 
cordially interested in both has any true conception of the spirit of the 
Gospel/ These words, as Dr. Nelson has said, are indeed worthy to 
be printed in gold; they are worthy of the man who in purpose as a 
boy would go to the heathen, who gave his strength to founding 
churches in our own country, and his ripest and tenderest months to 
those who are the neglected heathen of a Christian land. 

"His knowledge of men was commanding. We have never known 
a man who could give a fairer, clearer, juster estimate of people. With 
charity toward all and malice for none, he held and expressed his own 
convictions in no uncertain way. His trumpet gave a ringing sound. 
And yet, while he was tenacious of his opinions, and extremely frank 
in avowing them, there was something so manly in his manner, and 
so kind withal, that firmness seldom offended. He ha'd no smooth 



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arts of speech; he never sued for favor; he went straight on, but 
with consideration so tempering earnest conviction, and a kind heart 
so appearing through a plainness of speech, that those whose opinions 
or conduct he crossed were still his staunch friends. 

"The cause of our Church in all the West has sustained a great 
loss. How many enterprises will miss his counsel and help ! The 
Presbyterian Alliance of Kansas City, into whose projected work he 
threw himself with great energy; the Ladies^ College at Independence, 
in which he felt a great interest; and especially Park College, for 
which he had the highest hopes, and to which he gave himself in most 
unstinted measure — how all* these works will miss his strong hand 
and ready word ! 

"The history of Presbyterianism in this and neighboring States 
is also a great loser in his death. He knew more about the religious 
development of Missouri and Kansas and more about the marvelous 
and even romantic liistorv of Missions among Indian nations than any 
living man. So impressed with this fact was the Synod of Missouri that 
a few years ago they asked him to prepare from the valuable mater- 
ials in his hand and in his memory a history of our Church in this 
State. To this large work he hoped to give his declining years. 
Much knowledge will be buried to-day. The busy hand and brain are 
still, and much of our history has gone into the irrecoverable past. * * 
Two of the fairest of our States will be forever associated with the 
name of Timothy Hill. Hundreds of churches will be his monuments ; 
streams of blessing across the desert will tell to remoiiest times of the 
faith and toil of the prince of Presbyterian Missionaries.^^ 



FREDERIC WILLIAM HINITT. 

Though an Englishman by birth, Mr. Hinitt is a Missourian by 
long residence and education, as well as by his first pastorate. His 
home was in St. Joseph, where for some years he was in an architect's 
office, while preparing for college. He was a member of the Sixth 
Street church there, which is connected with the Southern Assembly. 
After graduating from Westminster College and McCormick Theolog- 
ical Seminary, he began his regular ministerial life as Pastor of our 
church at Warrensburg. There he immediately took high rank and 
was greatly esteemed as a man, preacher and Pastor. Dignified and 
courteous in manner, careful and attractive in personal appearance, 
earnest and scholarly in the pulpit, a cultivated singer and a forceful 
speaker, he was a favorite with young and old, students, professors and 
townspeople. Though he remained in Warrensburg but three years 
before accepting a call to Ottumwa, Iowa, he left the church in a pros- 
perous condition, much improved by the good work he accomplished 
there. 



EDWAED HOLLISTER. 



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EDWARD HOLLISTER. 

Though never settled over a church in this Presbytery, the man 
that organized its oldest church, that at Boonville (now in the South- 
ern connection, deserves at least a slight notice. From a sketch of his 
life found in the Presbytery Reporter Jan., 1870, pp. 72-4, it appears 
that Mr. Hollister was born at Sharon, Ct., Feb. 22, 1796, whence 
he removed with his father's family to Salisbury, Ct. After grad- 
uating at Middlebury College, and while a student at Andover Semi- 
nary, "during one vacation while laboring as a lay Missionary m i^os- 
ton, Mass., he witnessed the deeply interesting exercises at the em- 
barkation of Messrs Winslow, Scudder and others for the Ceylon Mis- 
sion ; and wrote lines, published in the Boston Recorder, a farewell ad- 
dress to them, which were printed and sung in the program of exer- 
cises at the ordination of Messrs. Bingham and Thurston, at Goshen, 
Conn., Sept. 29, 1819. This is mentioned to show the early bias of 
his mind to a missionary field. 

"Sept. 26, 1820, he was ordained by the Presbytery of London- 
derry, * * * together with Daniel Gould and Horace Belknap, and went 
on a Mission. Started Sept. 27, 1820, to Missouri and Illinois, under 
the direction of the Connecticut Home Missionary Society, under whos3 
care he remained until the spring of 1822. His labors were extensive 
and valuable * * * at several points collecting and organizing churches. 
* * * In the spring of 1822 he visited New England, expecting to 
return West to remain ; but at a late day in the season for making the 
journey, he was informed by a Secretary of the Society that they could 
employ only itinerants.^^ He reluctantly gave up returning to the 
West then, but in 1834 returned to Illinois, where he spent the re- 
mainder of his life. 

HORACE CARTER HOYEY. 

Probably the most scientific man that has ever occupied any pul- 
pit in this part of the country is the Rev. H. C. Hovey, D.D., now the 
Pastor of the historic church in ISTewburyport, Mass., under whose pul- 
pit the Evangelist, George Whitefield, was buried late in Colonial 
times. The son of a College Professor, he himself was early elected 
a Tutor in Wabash College, and was ever deeply interested in scien- 
tific studies. Though continuously in the pastorate since his ordina- 
tion in 1858, Dr. Hovey has found time to make careful personal in- 
vestigations, as well as to read and write extensively on scientific stud- 
ies, and to make himself a recognized authority on the subject of 
caves. He has been for years a correspondent of various litefarv, sci- 
entific and religious periodicals, and a member of =everal of the lead- 
ing geological, geographical and philosophical societies. His published 
works include a Manual of Mammoth Cave, one on Celebrated Ameri- 
can Caverns, and one on Subterranean Map-Making, besides sermons 
and addresses, and articles in the Encyclopsedia Britannica. 

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Kansas City from 1873 to 1875, during the times of financial depres- 
sion and trouble that ruined many of our churches in city and country 
both. He was a forcible writer and an able speaker, whose gifts have 
since found large exercise in several important pulpits, both Presbyter- 
ian and Congregational. 



ROBEET IRWIN. 

Dr. Irwin, long so well known in this State, first came to Mis- 
souri in 1869, having accepted a call to the Pastorate of the First 
church of Kansas City. Previous to that time, after having graduated 
from Hanover College and Western Seminary, he had served as Pas- 
tor of a church in Bethlehem, Ind., for eight years, as Chaplain in the 
U. S. Army for one year during the Civil War (from which he was 
forced to resign on account of sickness), and as Pastor of a church at 
Waveland, Ind., for five years. 

The story of the discouraging sigjit that met his eyes, when, on 
arrival in Kansas City, he beheld the smoking ruins of the beautiful 
church to which he had accepted a call, is told in the sketch of the 
First church given on another page. As there was no insurance, the 
plight was doubly distressing. A man of less faith and courage would 
have given up and retired. But undaunted himself, he soon led his dis- 
couraged people into a new building, in a new location, where a large 
congregation was built up and prospered under his ministrations. Hav- 
ing received a sunstroke, however, in the summer of 1872, his health 
was so impaired that he was compelled to resign in March, 1873. 
Though not afterwards formally identified with this Presbytery, his 
work as Superintendent for the Board of Publication and Sunday 
School Work, 1873-80, and as President of Lindenwood College until 
his death, was such as to bring him into close touch with all our 
churches and Avith many of their homes. He was also for years well 
known as an excellent Clerk of ecclesiastical bodies, having served as 
Stated Clerk of the Presbvtery of Lafayette until the Reunion, and as 
Stated Clerk of the Synod of Missouri', 1870-91. In all his work he 
was efficient and beloved. 



RICHARD H. JACKSON. 

Tall, keen-eyed, square-shouldered, perpendicular even to the top 
of his white hair, the figure of the Rev. R. H. Jackson is one that can 
never be forgotten by those that knew him. But his influence for 
good in this Presbytery will be still more abiding. Though never a 
Pastor among us, he served as Supply for the pulpits of five of our 
churches, in one of which he remained longer (fourteen years) than 
any other member of this Presbytery since the Civil War ever remained 
in continuous charge of one of its churches. When he came among us. 



E. H. JACKSON. 



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Mr. Jackson settlea over the churches of Appleton City (1877-82) and 
Westfield (1877-91). He also had charge of the Deepwater church 
(1886-90). Most of the time he lived out on the prairie, adjoining 
the Westfield church, to which fact much of his success is doubtless 
due. No church is likely to succeed whose Pastor does not live on 
the field. 

Much of his life having been spent as a teacher, part of his energy 
and that of his wife were 2'iven to the establishment and conduct of a 
small academy, adjoining his home and the Westfield church, which 
became a benefit to the church and the community. Their names will 
long remain fragrant in all that region. Of his quiet but effective 
work he says : "I had a fair degree of success in these fields. West- 
field built its first house of worship while I was its Supply (using a 
school-house when I went there). Deepwater was organized and 
built its present house of worship under my administration.^^ After 
four years in Arkansas, during which time Mrs. Jackson died, he re- 
turned to this region in 1895, and spent one year with the Creighton 
church and another with the Tipton church, which was his last regular 
work in this Presbytery. 



HEKMON DUTILH JENKINS. 

One of the most difficult postitions any man ever found himself 
placed in was that which Dr. Jenkins secured by accepting the call to 
the Second church, Kansas City, in 1895. Aside from the ordinary 
difficulties to be expected in any city parish, he had the high stand- 
ard of able predecessors to maintain, a much weakened (though united) 
congregation to re-establish in a time of widespread financial depres- 
sion, and the responsibilities of the leading church of the denomination 
in this part of the country to meet when all the time the character 
of the population to which the church could naturally appeal for mem- 
bership and support was rapidly changing. How well he met these 
unusual requirements is seen in part of the sketch of the Second church 
given elsewhere. Not many months had passed after his coming 
until the church, which had lost half its membership just before he 
came, had regained its former active membership, and was doing al- 
most as much as ever in the way of benevolences. To cap it all came 
the fire of April 4, 1900, by which the church lost its house of worship 
and its parsonage, while Dr. Jenkins and his family lost all their 
earthly possessions that fire could destroy. The minute adopted by the 
Presbyterian Alliance of Kansas City at that time is as follows : 

^Tt is with deep regret that tlie Presbyterian Alliance of Kansas 
City records the serious loss that has befallen the Second Presbyterian 
church of this city and its Pastor, the Eev. H. D. Jenkins, D.D. We 
extend to the congregation and Pastor, both so unexpectedly homeless, 
our cordial sympathy. We congratulate them on the Christian for- 
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church, though not fully insured, has decided to rebuild at once its 
house of worship. The Pastor cannot so soon recover himself. Be- 
reft in moments of the accumulations of years, no amount of skill, 
money or sympathy can restore to him the treasures of his private 
records, his innumerable manuscripts, his priceless family relics (the 
heirlooms of six generations), his carefully selected library, unusually 
rich in Art, Literature, Music and Presbyterian History. The work- 
man has lost his tools, many of which can never be duplicated. Yet 
we pray and believe that, under God, there may yet be in store for him 
a larger and better work than ever before."^ 

Dr. Jenkins brings to the accomplishment of his work a remark- 
ably large equipment. Graduating from Hamilton College and Union 
Theological Seminary in the days of their most noted professors, he 
rounded out his education by travel and study abroad and in all parts 
of the home land. An enthusiastic student of history, he is equally 
fond of science and art. A descendant of Pilgrim, Huguenot and 
Eevolutionary sires, he is also the proud wearer of a G. A. R. button. 
ISTot apparently robust in body, he is a devotee of outdoor sport, es- 
pecially with dog and gun. Without having lost from his pulpit a 
Sabbath for over a quarter of a centurv on account of illness (and but 
rarely for any other cause), he has yet found time to write remilarly 
and in great amount for the religious and the secular press, and that 
too upon a great variety of themes. Clear, forceful, brilliant and epi- 
grammatic with his pen. he is always extempore in manner and pol- 
ished in pulpit delivery. Attractive in the pulpit, frequent in visita- 
tion, genial in conversation, he is perhaps most helpful in the meet- 
ings for social prayer. Though often sought after by Boards. Col- 
leges and the Press, he has wisely preferred to remain in the pulpit. 
His removal from this Presbytery leaves a vacancy which no one else 
will ever exactly fill.. 



AMASA JOISrES. 

This devoted pioneer Missionary was one of the founders of the 
Presb^^terian Church in this State. His life here covered the entire 
period from the establishment of the first Mission station in the bounds 
of the present Presbytery of Kansas City down to the Reunion of the 
Old and Xew School Churches that were not divided till many years 
after he began to work here. His was the longest continuous service 
ever given by any Minister of this Presbytery to work within its bounds 
— ^he was forty-nine years a Missionary (the first fifteen of those a 
Foreign Missionary) in the same* general field. His associate. Dr. 
Requa, lived a few years longer, and died a member of this Presbytery, 
but part of his service had been in other Missions in Kansas and the 
Indian Territory. 

A manuscript life of Dr. Jones, under the title "Toiling for 
Jesus: Incidents in the Life of the Rev. Amasa Jone^. for many A^ears 



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a Missionary to the Osage Indirdis'^ was prepared by liis sister, but 
never published. It deals almost exclusively with his private corres- 
pondenoe, and shows more clearly than any words of another could 
do the beautiful and consistent Christian character of the man and 
his intense longing for souls. Never has the writer of this sketch 
read a correspondence covering a period of years (even much shorter 
than that covered by thcLe letters) where devotion to the Master seemed 
more genuine and consuming. It bore fruit to the glory of the Mas- 
ter at every period of his life. 

Amasa Jones, the son of a Revolutionary father, was born in 
Rindge, N. H., Apr. 28, 1796, the sixth of a family of twelve children. 
Carefully trained in a Christian home, his life there was one of early 
piety and extreme conscientiousness in little things. He was spec- 
ially fond of Christian biography. He united with the church at the 
age of fifteen, and at once began a work to interest others in his Sav- 
ior. He began by leading his own younger brother to Christ. At least 
twelve others of his companions were soon brought to Jesus by his 
effprts. In 1812 he was apprenticed to a shoemaker in Weston, Mass., 
where he soon became known as an earnest Christian, leading first his 
shopmates and then others to Christ, distributing tracts, establishing 
prayer meetings and making his influence widely felt for 
good. When he became a journeyman, he had hopes of getting an ed- 
ucation that would fit him for the Gospel ministry. But disappoint- 
ments followed and he was unable to get a support except bv his daily 
toil at the bench. He opened a shop at Schagticoke Point, N. Y,, 
where he found religion at a low ebb, the only church in the village 
being abandoned and fast going into unregretted decay. Only two 
persons in town were discovered that had ever been known as Chris- 
tians. He took it upon himself to appoint a meeting for the purpose 
of consultation on the religious state of the community. Out of that 
meeting grew an immediate effort to obtain stated preaching. Soon 
there came a revival and the establishment of two good churches, a 
Presbyterian and a Methodist, both of them long efficient in their ap- 
propriate work. That was in 1817. 

From there he went to Woodstock, Vt., where he had an oppor- 
tunity to teach school and at the same time receive instruction from 
the Pastor of the church. There again he was the chief instrument 
in the promotion of a revival resulting in the conversion of over forty 
persons, many of his pupils among them. Other districts near bv 
were similarly blessed. A Pastor wrote of him then: ^'Wherever 
Mr. Jones has labored with us, his efforts have been attended with 
marked indications of God^s favor, and more or less have been awak- 
ened to their perilous condition out of Christ. The effort in a dis- 
trict outside the village, proverbial for the dissemination of error, 
was much blessed, after every previous attempt by us had proved inef- 
fectual. Mr. Jones seemed to possess in a good degree the qualifica- 
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exerting a salutary influence on the hearts of those hardened under 
long transgressions/' 

In the fall of 1820^ after a brief visit to the old home, which he 
had been unable to visit since starting out eight years before to become 
an apprentice, he entered. Andover Theological Seminary, his classical 
studies having been privately but so thoroughly pursued, under the 
Pastor mentioned, that he was able to take advanced standing in the 
Seminary, and to complete the course with honor the next year. 

Feb. 21, 1821, he married Miss Roxana Stearns, of Ashburnham, 
Mass., a thoroughly kindred spirit, and started almost at once for New 
York City, where they joined a company of those that, like themselves, 
were under commission by the United Foreign Missionary Society to 
to establish a Mission among the Osage InVians in Missouri. The 
company arrived at the site chosen for their new Mission Sept. 1, 1821. 
This work was transferred to the care of the A. B. C. F. M. in 1826. 
Mr. Jones was the Mission teacher. But his work was by no means 
confined to the schoolroom. The February following his arrival he 
wrote: "I have established three preaching-places, and devote my 
time on the Sabbath exclusively to them. During the week I am en- 
gaged in teaching our school, and various duties belonging to me in 
our work. Every moment is crowded with labor. 0 that it may tell 
for Eternity ! Pray for us that we shall not labor in vain." 

Not long after the beginning of the Mission, the physician. Dr. 
W. N. Belcher, had to leave. Foreseeing this, he advised Mr. Jones 
to study medicine with him, so as to be able to take his place. This 
was done, and so successfully that Mr. Jones soon became a skilful 
physician. But all the while the other duties were kept up, particu- 
larly the preaching services. His efforts gradually began to tell, es- 
pecially upon the pupils in his school, many of whom, both boys and 
girls, became regular and earnest in prayer. But at last, as told else- 
where, the Government removed the Indians, and the Mission had to 
be abandoned. Dr. Jones was then commissioned by the A. H. M. S., 
and devoted himself more fully to the work of the pulpit. In October 
1836 he removed to the mouth of the Sac River, the present site of 
Osceola, making that the center o£ his missionary operations until 
1838, when he purchased the site where he built the home in which 
he spent the remainder of his days, at "Deepwater.'^ in "Rives County,'' 
about fifteen miles southwest of Clinton, near the present town of 
Montrose. 

At Deep water a gracious revival occurred in 1843, at whica old 
and young, "hopeless cases" and.infidels, all classes were reached. That 
year he reported to the A. H. M. S. twenty-six added on examination 
and foiirteen by letter. When we remem-ber how sparse were the set- 
tlements at that time, this was a large accession. Of his work about 
that time he wrote home-: "Ordinarily it requires me to travel 180 
miles during each three weeks of my labor — often much more, in ad- 
dition to a vast amount of other missionary labor. This must be done 
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out a path even to mark my way. These are but common occurrences 
to the Western Missionary; but the joy of bearing the glad tidings 
of salvation to the destitute surpasses all. To raise up churches, to 
establish schools, to plant the banner of the cross everywhere is my 
dear delight. And, sister, such a reward for unceasing toil to hear 
on every hand the earnest inquiry 'What shall I do to be saved ?' " 
Such arduous labor naturally overtaxed his strength and broke him 
down prematurely; yet, on hearing of the death of his mother in 1845, 
he wrote : "For myself, I feel the weight of years creeping over me, 
and my sun must set ere long. I have been as usual fully absorbed 
in labor, and cannot do otherwise, while I have strength to ride and 
preach. The calls are so numerous and pressing I cannot resist them. 
Souls are perishing for lack of the Gospel. Woe is unto me, if I carry 
not the glad tidings of salvation while my strength lasts At an 
other time he wrote : "There is unspeakable pleasure in wearing out 
in the cause of Christ ! In His service I hope to exhaust all my ener- 
gies while life lasts." 

Dr. Jones was regarded as a very successful physician. From 
his practice he received in the later years of his life nearly all his 
support. In 1857 he wrote : "It is exceedingly difficult to collect the 
smallest sum for any benevolent object. The most that a Minister 
may expect is a nights lodging and a horse fed. I have spent a large 
portion of eight years past in preaching to the destitute settlements 
in this vicinity, and all that I have ever received from the people is 
$29 — and ^25 of that was given by one individual. Even marriages 
are often solemnized without any offer of compensation. This ought, 
however, to be imputed more to the custom of the country than to the 
state of feeling. In this section of the country it would be a deathblow 
to a Minister's usefulness to have it known that he received a salary 
(though ever so small) from the people. When we take these things 
into view it is hardlv a matter of surprise that we find so few prosper- 
ous churches.'^ 

As might have been supposed from Dr. J ones' New England ante- 
cedents, be was much interested in the slaves whom he found in Mis- 
souri. In one of his reports he says : "At Osceola I have held three 
or four meetings expressly for the benefit of the colored people. At 
my last meeting with them, ten came forward and gave very good evi- 
dence that they were seeking the Lord in earnest. Indeed, I have good 
reason to believe that most of them are already born into the King- 
dom. At my next meeting I intend to form them into a class, with 
reference to their uniting with the church.'' 

How many churches Dr. Jones organized, and bow many church 
buildings he erected, are not now known to the writer. At one time 
he reports: "We have begun to build a los: meeting-house, which, if 
once completed, will add much to our comfort, and something to the 
size of the congregation. We have been compelled thus far to hold 
our meetings in private dwellings, which at best can afford but poor 
accommodations." In 1856 he wrote the friends at home: "I am 



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now making arrangements to build a church for my beloved people at 
Deepwater, which 1 am exceedingly desirous to see accomplished before 
I die. For want of funds, we have hitherto been unable to build; and 
my people are unable still to meet the expense, although I have reason 
to hope for something in this quarter before the work is completed. 
The responsibility of the expenses incurred will devolve alone on my- 
self, from which I hope to free myself from debt by the little fund 
I have been saving, gained in the practice of medicine. This, how- 
ever, is insufficient to meet all the demand ; yet I hope, by Grod^s bless- 
ing, to save something more the present year, which, with what my 
people may raise, shall supply our need.^' The building thus erected 
was put up largely by the labor of Dr. Jones^ own hands. It was built 
on his own farm, mainly of adobe bricks, plastered on the outside. It 
was the first church building erected in the western part of Henry 
county, and probably the first building in the county erected for church 
purposes exclusively. Of it he wrote : ^'Our house, aside from what 
has been given us, will cost but six or seven hundred dollars. Sixty 
of the sum has already been raised. The rest I shall remit from my 
savings.^' This building was satisfactorily completed and used for 
about twenty years, until, after the coming of the railroad to Mon- 
trose a few miles away, the old Deep water (or Oermantown) church 
was finally dissolved, and the building went to decay. 

When the troubles came on, late in the fifties, by which the New 
School denomination in this State was nearly wiped out, he turned 
reluctantly away from the denomination in which he had labored so 
long and sought a home in the Old School Church. His church went 
with him into the Presbytery of Lafayette in 1859. At the close of 
the War, they were within the bounds of the Presbytery of Southwest 
Missouri, where they remained until the Reunion. For that event 
he longed and prayed. At his invitation the meetings of the Presby- 
teries of Southwest Missouri and Osage were held simultaneously in 
the old adobe church at Germantown in the spring of 1870, at which 
time the final steps toward the Reunion were taken. He had longed 
to be present on that occasion. The meeting came, but he was too 
feeble to attend. But he heard of the unanimous vote for Reunion, 
and joined heartily in spirit, if not in voice, with the brethren that 
sang "Blest be the tie that binds.'' When the Presbyteries had ad- 
journed and remained only for the Sabbath Communion service, he 
peacefully passed Home. Both Presbyteries attended the funeral serv- 
ices the next day, conducted by the two Moderators. One of them 
said that when he had visited their venerable father, four years before, 
"the deceased had three desjres which he lono-ed to see accomplished. 
The first was to see this church he had founded srreatly strengthened 
in the Christian work. He had lived to sep that desire gratified to an 
unusual extent. The second was that every one of his orrandchildren 
might be converted and come into covenajit with the people of Cod. 
This too was granted him : for while he lav there the evening preceding 
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The third was to see both branches oi Presbyterians united in one com- 
mon bond, and he himself had sung at the conclusion of this act, *^Blest 
be the tie that binds/ All there thought of the words of the aged 
Simeon, words which indeed Dr. Jones himself had thought of and 
used on his dying day. "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in 
peace, * * * for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation.^'' 

Dr. Jones was a remarkable man in a great variety of ways. 
Though not, so far as we know, given to wiiting verses himself, he was 
a great lover of religious poetry. Almost every letter contains one 
or more quotations or fragments of pious song, appropriately setting 
forth his experiences and aspirations. He was a skilled mechanic, not 
merely in the trade he learned in youth, but in cabinet-making and 
carpentry as well. Though never trained in the schools, he was a good 
scholar, a beloved physician, a deep theologian, a good preacher. 
Though for nearly fifty years an exile on the frontier, he was well 
posted on the progress of mankind, especially of the Church. Though 
poor in this world^s goods, he was a liberal giver, an unselfish worker, 
a persistent Missionary. The record of his life can never be fully read 
on earth; but even a fragmentary statement of what he did, and why 
and how he did it, ought to make every reader a better Christian, a 
more earnest worker. 



CHARLES COTTON KIMBALL. 

The fourth in the succession of Pastors of the Second church of 
Kansas City was the Rev. C. C. Kimball, D.D., one of the most schol- 
arlv men that have filled its pulpit. After graduating with the high- 
est honors from Beloit College, and completing the full course at Union 
Theological Seminary, he spent years in study and evangelical work 
and traveled abroad before entering upon the full work of the pastor- 
ate in Erie, Pa. There he was Pastor of the First church for four 
years and then of the Central church for seven years before coming to 
Kansas City. He was in this charge about two and a half years, dur- 
ing the period when the city was growing very rapidly and fast as- 
suming the metropolitan position it now holds. He was a vigorous 
thinker of decidedly original character, an epigrammatic writer with 
a fresh way of putting things, a brilliant word painter, adorning and 
enforcing his sermons with vivid illustrations of vast variety — "a man 
of learning and ability, dignified, earnest, able to discuss the higher 
themes of theology with clearness, while he greatly excelled in descrip- 
tive power.^' During his stay the church grew rapidly, crowding the 
downtown house of worship to the doors. A new building was de- 
cided upon and work begun upon the building at the corner of 13th 
and Central streets (which was burned Apr. 4, 1900). It was then 
thought far out, in a strictly residence portion of the city. 

When it dissolved the pastoral relation, to take effect the 30th of 
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prospect of this separation^' as well as bore "testimony to the high 
Christian character of Dr. Kimball, to his ability as an expounder of 
God's Word, and the success which has attended him during his pas- 
torate in the midst of great difficulties." 



JAMES THOMAS LAPSLEY. 

The first twenty-five 3ears of the ministry of Dr. Lapslev were 
spent within the bounds of the Presbyteries of Transylvania and Eben- 
ezer. These two Presbyteries have probably furnished more ministers 
and members to the churches in this part of Missouri than any other 
two in the denomination. After supplying the churches of Knob 
Noster and Warrensburg for a year or more, 1856-7, Dr. Lapsley was 
called to the church of Pleasant Hill, where he remained (though not 
installed) until April, 1860. Of this period he writes : "My minis- 
try in Pleasant Hill church. Mo., of over two years, was very pleasant 
and successful. Began work there in fall of 1858. Number of mem- 
bers on church roll, seventy-five, with five Elders and three Deacons. 
During the year forty additions by profession. Next 3^ear (fall of 
1859) a very gracious revival, resulting in sixty additions, of whom 
forty were males. Being called to pastorate of the New and Old 
School churches of New Providence, Ky., uniting into one church, I 
accepted same and returned to Kentucky, April 1860; and left the 
Pleasant Hill church wr 175 on church roll. Revisited Pleasant 
Hill in the spring of 1865, or near the close of the Civil War, and 
found only six families of Presbyterians, and twenty members in reach 
of church. Later on, or in fall of 1865, I learned as many as fifty or 
sixty members were again in Pleasant Hill and vicinity. While I 
served Pleasant Hill church, the town of Pleasant Hill had about 800 
population, and Kansas City aboiit 3,000 and Westport, two or three 
miles away, about 3,500 people." During the period just after the 
Reunion, Dr. Lapsley again supplied the Pleasant Hill church, 
1870-72. 

Dr. Lapsley is still (1900) preaching in Kentucky. A letter re- 
ceived from him in the fall of 1900 gives a delightful picture of a 
green and fruitful old age. "I am now in my 82d year, in good health, 
and retain all my powers remarkably well. Preach regularly first and 
third Sabbath of each month to small churches, one thirty, the other 
forty miles away. If I live till October 9, 1900, I will have been 
preaching fifty-nine years. My voice is as strong as thirty years ago. 
Am the oldest Presbyterian minister in Kentuckv though some are 
older in years. Have, during my ministry, had not less than seventy- 
five revival seasons of more or less extent, and resulting in hope eon- 
versions of ten to one hundred persons at various points, and aggre- 
gating, as far as human observation can determine, from 2,000 to 
2,500 persons. It has been my good fortune to be a member of the 
General Assembly in 1846, 1855, 1864, 1874, 1880, 1891 and 1899— 



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seven Assemblies; and on the Committee on the Briggs ease at Detrojt 
in '91, and McGiffert case in '98. I hope we are done with such 
troubles for years to come/' 



EGBERT L. McAFEE. 

Of the founder of the Jefferson City church the only biographical 
data secured are found in a letter from himself to the Eev. Timothy 
Hill, dated April 5, 1856, in which he says : "1 am a native of Mercer 
county, Ky., born May 29, 1802. Took my literary course partly in 
a Latin school taught in the neighborhood where I was born, and partly 
at Center College, Danville, Ky. Studied Theology under Dr. Thos. 
Cleland, Pastor of the united churches of Harrodsburg and New Prov- 
idence. I never attended a Theological Seminary. I was licensed 
to preach the Gospel by Transylvania Presbytery, March, 1829, and 
came on a missionary tour to Missouri in May following. Having 
previous to my leaving for Missouri applied to the Board of Missions 
of the General Assembly for a commission and pay as an Evangelist, 
when I reached Columbia, Mo., I found a commission from the Assem- 
bly's Board, but allowing me, as was their custom then, only $100 for 
a year's services, leaving me to collect from the people among whom 
I missionated the balance of what I might need. The brethren who 
were here laboring and had been laboring some among the vacant 
churches in this State told me what I afterwards found to be true, 
viz. : that I would be able to get very little from the people among 
whom I might labor for some time to come. And my means being 
very limited, I, for that reason alone, returned the commission sent me 
by the Assembly's Board; and through Bro. Cochran applied to the 
Home Missionary Society for a commission granting me full pay, $400 
per year, which they granted, dating my commission, I think, about 
the first of May or June, 1829. I itinerated that summer, visiting 
different parts of the State and vacant churches. In autumn I sus- 
pended my missionary work, and spent the winter in Kentucky, and 
returning to this State in June, 1830, I took charge as Stated Supply 
of the churches of Round Prairie and Millersburg, the churches being 
twelve miles apart. Both these churches were newly organized, I be- 
lieve, by Rev. Wm. P. Cochran, and both very feeble. With these two 
churches I continued and labored during my connection with the Home 
Missionary Society. I was under the pay of the Home Missionary So- 
ciety four years*, I believe, receiving $400 the first year, $300 the sec- 
ond year and $200 each the last two years. [What would some of our 
Home Missionaries think of such meager salaries now, and of such 
heroic cutting ?] At the close of the fourth year, the churches to which 
I preached having increased some in strength and numbers, I deter- 
mined in the exercise of faith to cast myself upon God and the churches 
to whom I ministered for my support, thanked the Home Missionary 
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the great Head of the Church to bless and prosper them in their noble 
work. I continued to preach to both the Millersburg and Eound 
Prairie churches for some three or four 3^ears. In the meantime I 
organized the Presbyterian church in Jefferson City, I think in 1835, 
and after my connection with the Home Missionary Society closed 
my time was divided for a year or two equally between the three 
churches, after which I gave up the Millersburg church, and divided 
my time pretty much between the Round Prairie and Jefferson City 
churches, with some intermission in the latter church, until the sum- 
mer of 1846, when from disease of the throat I had to give up preach- 
ing altogether for several years. * * * The church at Jefferson City 
has passed through sunshine and shade at various times, and has now, 
I am told, a prospect of doing well. * * * For several years after I 
came to the State, most of all the ministers here, so far as I know or 
now recollect, I mean Presbyterian ministers, were in connection with 
the Home Missionarv Society, and all the older churches were organ- 
ized by them, many of which have since become extinct.''^ 



IRWIN POUNDS McCURDY. 

When Dr. McCurdy took charge of the Fifth church, Kansas City, 
it was greatly discouraged by debt and other circumstances that had 
led to the resignation of Dr. Bruce a few months before. The vigor, 
energy and ability with which he then took hold of this difficult work 
bore immediate fruit in the revival of interest on the part of those 
that remained and in the addition of nearly one hundred members in 
the first six months of his pastorate. Though in the city but a little 
over two years, he tooK high rank among its leading clergymen, in the 
Presbyterian Alliance and in the Presbytery, being frequently called 
upon to address prominent gatherings. He was not a member of secret 
societies, but emphatically a "joiner^^ when it came to patriotic and 
hereditary societies, of which he belonged to the Society of Ma5^flower 
Descendants, the Sons of the Revolution (on twelve counts, possibly 
the largest number ever proved up on by one individual) , the Society 
of the War of 1812, the Society of Colonial Wars, and several others. 
His literary record and pastoral work are thus related in the genealogy 
of the Doty— Doten Family, p. 473 : 

"He graduated at Indiana, Pa., State Normal School, 1876, with 
the highest honors of his class ; graduated A.B. at Lafayette College, 
receiving the Fowler prize, the highest honor in the College ; graduate 
student with Prof. F. A. March, and received Litt.D. from Lafayette 
1890; graduate student at Princetoij, completing three courses with 
Pres. McCosh, who certified: ^He showed superior philosophic abil- 
ity' ; has received thirteen different degrees, all by examination, ex- 
cept D.D. honorary, ei^ht being the Doctor's degree. Received theolog- 
ical education at Princeton. Pastor Presbyterian church, Frederick 
City, Md., 1881-4; Southwestern Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, 



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1884-95, and Honorary Pastor for life from June 1895; P. E., St. 
Andrew's Presbyterian church, Boston, Mass., 1896 ; delegate to Pan 
Presbyterian Council, London, 1888 ; member of the Presbyterian 
Board of Education since 1887 ; chairman of Board of Managers of 
Evangelical Alliance, Philadelphia, 1889-94:; etc." 

JAMES ALEXANDEE POETEE McGAW. 

ITo man that has passed in and out of the Presbytery of Kansas 
City in recent years has stood higher in the esteem of his brethren in 
the ministry or of the churches than Dr. McGaw. His coming was 
welcomed, his departure much regretted. He had filled the positions 
of Moderator of the Presbytery and Chairman of its Committee on 
Foreign Missions, as well as of several special Committees, much to 
the satisfaction of all. He was one of the first to occupy the chair as 
President of the Presbyterian Alliance of Kansas City, and was a 
strong promoter of its efficiency. He made his influence widely felt, 
though occupying a suburban pulpit, one of the most difficult in the 
city. When he left the city, the Alliance declared him "kind in spirit, 
broad in charity, and true to the Gospel of Christ, * * * constantly 
co-operating with his fellow Pastors in all that pertains to the welfare 
of the church, * * * a Christian brother of much ability and blameless 
character, whose departure from us we sincerely regret." 

It has not always been the , custom of the Presbytery to pass reso- 
lutions on the departure of brethren, even of prominence; but on the 
departure of Dr. McGaw, it placed on record these facts : "He has 
diligently and efficiently met the demands upon him during his pas- 
torate. A Christian gentleman ; an earnest, able, evangelical prpacher ; 
a sound and experienced Presbyterian ; an excellent Pastor, tactful and 
courageous in the discharge of his duty; he has endeared himself to 
us, won the esteem of the clergy of other denominations and of the 
community at large. We desire to express our high respect for and 
warm attachment to him as a man and as a Minister." 

The estimate of him in ITevin is eminently appropriate : '^Dr. 
McGaw is a substantial man, physically, intellectually and spiritually. 
As a preacher he is earnest and clear and instructive and evangelical. 
Being a man of much kindness and readiness and strength of judgment, 
and of courage to urge his convictions, he is useful and influential as 
a Pastor. In his ministry he has been acceptable and useful.'^ 

EOLLIN EUTHVEN MAEQIHS. 

In the seven years he spent in this Presbytery, no man was more 
constantly on its Committees, both Permanent and Special, than E. E. 
Marquis. He was early elected Moderator of Presbytery and Commis- 
sioner to the General Assembly. His work was summarized at its 
close in the following, proposed by Dr. Hendy and adopted by the Pres- 
b3^tery: "Our esteemed brother has labored in word and doctrine 
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church in all lines of work, even during a period of general depression. 
He has strengthened our cause to a marked degree in the entire com- 
munity where he has been called to labor. Presbytery takes special 
pleasure in testifying that they have found in Bro. Marquis a well- 
trained and scholarly co-laborer. His zeal for and thorough grasp of 
all the great fundamental questions of our Presbyterian polity, and his 
tireless labors, especially in the work of our Church for Young People, 
have greatly endeared him to all his brethren in this Presbytery." 



JOSEPH MAYOU. 

The materials are not at hand for as extended a notice as we would 
like to give of the labors of the Eev. Jos. Mayou, a man of the widest 
experience and range of work. Born in England, educated and nat- 
uralized in America, laboring with unusual success for over thirteen 
years in India in the x\rcot Mission of the Reformed (Dutch) Church, 
for five years ^^holding a place of forlorn hope" as a Home Missionary 
of the same denomination, and for thirteen years thereafter a Home 
Missionary of the Presbyterian Church in Kansas, he came to this Pres- 
bytery vigorous and energetic in the work he loved. He supplied the 
churches of Appleton City and Montrose for about two years and those 
of Greenwood and Centerview for one year. His wife was meanwhile 
one of the most efficient workers in the Women's Presbyterial Mission- 
ary Society, of which she was elected President. At last, however, 
when, seeking a new field, he met with objections on account of his atti- 
tude on certain questions then agitating the Church at large. Sad and 
sore over the treatment he received, he withdrew from the Presbyterian 
denomination, and entered the Episcopal ministry. His brethren of 
the Presbytery regretted that he should have found anything in the 
manner of their criticism to induce him to think there was aught but 
the kindliest feeling toward him personally, and protested that no such 
impression was intended. His own feelings are shown in a note to 
one of the members of the Committee on Presbyterial History, which 
we give without comment: 

^^I thought that the Presbyterian Church was more liberal 
than the Reformed; and so I found it, till the Briggs question agi- 
tated the Church. Then it refused to reject unreasonable tenets, and 
placed upon the Clergyman additional dogma, and intimated to those 
who disagreed to go out or be put out. I chose to go to the Church of 
my youth, in which I had been fully religiously educated; and there 
I can find rest from factious animosity." 



WILLIAM S. MESMER. 

One of the three Ministers that reorganized the Presbytery of 
Osage after the close of the War was the Rev. W. S. Mesmer. When 



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he came to this State from the East, it was said of him : "Bro. Mes- 
mer has been three years in the Army, and has learned such lessons as 
will stand him in good stead in the field he has undertaken to culti- 
vate." He did not long remain within the present bounds of this Pres- 
bytery, most of his labor being in churches now in the bounds of the 
Presbytery of Ozark. The nature of the man and of his arduous work 
are well shown in the letter given below, written by him Sept. 1, 1866 : 

"For the past three months our home has been in the saddle, and 
our study the woods and prairies of Benton and Henry counties. 
Availing ourselves of the privilege granted (that of prospecting for 
ourselves) we have presented our claim, driven our first stakes, and 
settled our boundaries for the year ending Sept. 1, 1867, not without 
earnest prayer that the Head of the Church would ^enlarge the place 
of our tent, lengthen our cords, and strengthen our stakes.' We have 
now two organized churches under the care of your Missionary, in this 
locality, and are hopeful of adding another thereto this coming winter. 
One of these, the Warsaw church, was already formed at our coming. 
This church now consists of ten members, three of whom have been 
added within the last three months. The other, the Salem church, has 
been organized since the first of June. We have a membership of 
eighteen, with a reasonable prospect of additions. Our ministerial 
labors are puBlicly as follows : Warsaw, morning and night, the sec- 
ond and fourth Sabbaths of each month; no mid-day service as yet. 
The Mondays following, preaching at Sunnyside school-house, ten 
miles northwest from Warsaw. The first and third Sabbaths of each 
month, at Salem in the morning; Belmont, eight and one-half miles 
distant at 3 p. m. ; Calhoun, nine miles distant, at 7 p. m. Whenever 
a fifth Sabbath occurs, the morning service is at Sunnvside, the evening 
at Calhoun, and the afternoon as the exigencies of different places re- 
quire. Arrangements are being made for another public Monday eve- 
ning service. This will be the extent of our public ministrations at 
present. Two weekly social services, one in Salem neisfhborhood, the 
other in Belmont, will shortly occupy our attention. The rest of the 
time must be given to study and meditation. 

"This program calls for fourteen to sixteen public services and 
eight social services ner month, involving at least 300 miles of travel. 
Our churches, feeble and poor as they are, have arranged to pay one- 
half of our salary during the ensuing year. The membership is wil- 
ling, and we are looking: to the Lord of the Harvest for conious showers 
to make us fruitful. Our post-office address is Windsor, Henry counlv, 
Mo. ; our residence is in Benton county, as the most central and easy 
of access to all parts of our station.^' 



GEORGE MILLER. 

One of the most readable and graphic little volumes ever writ- 
ten with reference to this part of the country is that entitled ^TVTissouri's 



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Memorable Decade/^ by George Miller. It is especially valuable to 
anyone that wishes to understand the conditions prevailing in the part 
of the State now occupied by the Presbytery of Kansas City, in which 
Dr. Miller spent that memorable decade and took part in some of its 
most stirring events in Church and State. Though not primarily au- 
tobiographical, his strong personality shines out all through the book. 
He wisely did not attempt to omit the personal pronoun in describing 
the significant scenes and occurrences in which he bore a manly part. 
From that book, and largely in his own words though not always in 
formal quotations, this sketch has been prepared. 

Dr. Miller's great grandfather, Josiah Miller, came from County 
Antrim, Ireland, to Chester District, South Carolina, in the year 1771. 
His grandfather, Robert Miller, was then a lad of eleven years. At the 
age of seventeen he joined the Revolutionary Army and served until its 
close, being severely wounded in the Battle of King's Mountain. His 
father, Robert Hyndman Miller, was a valiant Captain of Artillery 
in the South Carolina militia. Descended from such Scotch-Irish, 
Presbyterian and Revolutionary ancestry. Dr. Miller was born on a 
farm in Chester District, S. C, Sept. 3, 1834:. "My earlier educa- 
tional advantages,'' he writes, "were very meager, obtained in log 
school-houses of crudest furnishing, and given in broken doses of from 
two or three months at a time. Blackboards and glass windows formed 
no part of school-house equipment in those good old days. About the 
only redeeming features of those earlier opportunities were that the 
Bible and the Shorter Catechism, with Webster's elementary spelling- 
book, constituted the standard text-books ; and these lay the foundation 
of splendid character, if well improved.'^ 

Like other members of the Associate Reformed Church to which 
he belonged. Dr. Miller's father was strongly opposed to slavery. For 
daring to prosecute those that tarred and feathered a Minister of that 
denomination for speaking against slavery, he was himself mobbed by 
his neighbors. Yet for fifteen years thereafter he continued to live 
in the old home and was a pronounced anti-slavery man. But naturally 
his children came North for an education, and in time he and they re- 
moved to Lawrence, Kan., where he remained until his death in 1882, 
at the age of eighty-six. There his son Josiah edited a paper called 
The Kansas Free State, issuing the first number from a sod house on 
Jan. 3, 1855. In May of the following- year the Free State press and 
office were totally destroyed by the border raiders from Missouri. 
More than one attempt was made on the life of its editor. But he 
later re-established his paper, and was a leader in all the Kansas strug- 
gles until his death in 1870. 

"The same reasons," savs Dr. Miller, "that carried this brother 
North led me to go in 1852. I was six years younorer than he. I 
spent my preparatory and Freshman years at the University of Indi- 
ana, and entered the Sophomore class in Center Colle2fe, Ky., in 1854. 
There I maintained my convictions." He mentions several snirited 
debates that amply prove this statement. "I finished my collegiate 



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course in 1857 and entered the Theological Seminary, and was licensed 
in the spring of 1859. During the summer vacation I went to Kansas. 
I preached my first sermon in South Leavenworth. The city was the 
first western city to engage in the 'boom' business. The field was un- 
organized, but had a good brick building. I was a sort of John the 
Baptist to the Eev. J. G. Eeaser, D.D., who was soon to take charge of 
the work. The people did not know that it was my first sermon. I 
was preacher, precentor, choir, organist and — well, we did not take up 
a collection. At the close of the service I called for a volunteer choir 
to meet and practice on Saturday evening. A gentleman and his wife, 
living near the church offered their services and the use of their or^'an ; 
and we had a splendid choir for the next service. I felt greatly en- 
couraged, and matters moved on very nicely for about six weeks when 
one evening at the choir meeting the gentleman's wife remarked that 
I must excuse her husband's absence, as he had to prepare an oyscer 
supper at the saloon that evening !" 

"A short time after this I preached in Lawrence, Kan., in a long 
hall on the third floor. I had been brought up a strict Psalm-singer, 
and had rather serious notions of the proprieties of worship. I entered 
the hall and took my seat on the platform, and presently heard strange 
sounds issuing from a corner about one hundred feet distant. I had 
announced a grand old hymn, and a whole amateur orchestra tackled 
it. At times the flute seemed to lead; the bass viol would come in 
with longdrawn notes ; then the clarionet would seize and toss it high 
in the air, when at length the trombone gave an agonizing blast, one 
beat behind the time — a sort of death knell, and all was over. The 
thought that I was in Kansas, where everything was done in a differ- 
ent way, greatly helped me." 

Eeturning to Danville, he there finished his studies in May of 
1860. There was a strong call for Southern bred men to go to Texas, 
but as his convictions on the slavery question were not in accord with 
Southern sentiment, he sadly declined going there, much as he loved 
the South. "It was,' he wrote, "this sad conflict between my prin- 
ciples and my affections that brought me to Missouri, which, as I sup- 
posed, was compromise ground — a sort of 'Missouri Compromise,^ that, 
like its noted predecessor, was rashly repealed with some very unpleas- 
ant results. In June of 1860 I accepted a call to the church of Pleas- 
ant Hill, in Cass county. At this time this was the largest church in 
western Missouri, with the exception of those of Lexington and St. 
Joseph. But, alas ! I came just in time to see both Church and State 
sink in blood and fire on the very issues I most dreaded. I tried to 
be true to both, during those stormy days, and it is but natural that 
I should feel the deepest interest in the welfare of the State and of 
that portion of the Church to which I have given my whole active life, 
however little that life may have been worth to either.'' 

The vicissitudes and measure of Dr. Miller's success in the church 
at Pleasant Hill are spoken of somewhat in the sketch of that church. 
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graphically portrayed in his book, caimot be dwelt upon here. When 
there was no longer a prospect of his doing further work at Pleas- 
ant Hill, while conning the question, Whither? he received a 
unique invitation to "preach to the loyal people'' of Kansas City. 
He accepted and remained in the city from 1862 to 1865, preach- 
ing in the First Presbyterian Church and, part of the time, main- 
taining a private school, in which he taught many of those that 
since have become among the most prominent of the city's business 
men. A short notice of him said at the time of his death: 

"Dr Miller was a sturdy type of the fighting parsons of 
the primitive West, who, while they saved souls and ministered to 
the spiritual welfare of their people, hesitated not to take up the 
gun and bear an active part in the protection of the homes of their 
people. Many times was Dr. Miller called upon to do picket duty 
in Kansas City during the War, and it is recorded that he made a 
good soldier." 

At the close of the War came the reconstruction period, so dif- 
ficult at all times, especially where the contest has been long and 
bitter. How difficult it was in Lafayette Presbytery, few that did 
not pass through it can now appreciate. Dr. Miller's prominence 
in that struggle can be best explained in his own words : "In August, 
1865, I received a commission from the Board of Home Missions in 
Philadelphia. . . .1 knew nothing of this document until I received it 
from the post office. A letter accompanied it, in which I was urged 
to return to my church and take hold of the work of reconstructing 
the church in Southwestern Missouri, and assuring me that the Board 
would stand by me. The reasons assigned for this urgent request of 
the Board were these : First, that as my pastoral relation at Pleasant 
Hill had never been dissolved, I was still the legal pastor of the 
church and a member of the Presbytery ; second, that I was the only 
member of that Presbytery who unreservedly adhered to the Greneral 
Assembly ; third, as the Southern Assembly had been in existence since 
1861, and as the Synod of Missouri had not gone into it, there was 
every reason for believing that an earnest effort would be made to 
divide the churches in Missouri on these lines; fourth, and therefore 
ihat I was the only man in this section whose position and knowledge 
of the field fitted him for all the possible contingencies that might 
arise. I felt that the great principles and an important vantage 
ground must be maintained, and that the Lord had laid upon me that 
work. And so, wisely or unwisely, the Church and my fellow men must 
Judge, and I came to my old charge and Presbytery in September, 
1865.^' 

The details of that struggle over the right of those that signed the 
Declaration and Testimony to a seat in Presbytery, which Dr. Miller 
alone of the former members of Lafayette Presbytery denied, and how 
under his leadership the Presbytery was re-organized on the basis laid 
down by ihe Greneral Assembly cover many pages in the records of 
Presbytery and Synod. They are fully entered into in the chapter in 



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his book that treats of the reconstruction in the Synod. It was any- 
thing but a i3]easant experience at the time ; but the true spirit of the 
man around whom the fight centered in this part of the state is seen 
in the close of the cliapter referred to, where he said : 

"And now as we stand here to-day and look back over those thirty- 
two years of somewhat intimate personal acquaintance with the minis- 
ters and churches of the Presbytery, what a flood of memories, sad and 
sweet, rushes over me ! Personal contact with about one hundred min- 
isterial brethren, beginning with a period of bitter strife and aliena- 
ton, men not perfect, any more tnan we are, yet men possessed of 
noble Christian qualities that were never wholly lost sight of in the 
midst of discord and contention. There was much of asperity in those 
times, but more of love ; much to be sincerely deplored, but more to 
be remembered with gratitude to God. It is with grateful feelings 
that I am able to record that those with whom I differed most bitterly 
are to-day numbered among my warmest friends. Each thought we 
were right, and acted out our convictions in manly opposition, and so 
won each other^s respect." 

"In the midst of these labors, the overstrain on my brain, shat- 
tered by sunstroke, threw me into such nervous prostration that my 
physicians bade me cease all mental labor and give myself to out- 
door exercise for a year or two, warning me that it was doubtfu] 
whether I would ever by able to resume pastoral work. This was the 
ordeal of my life. I had ambitions — I trust worthy ambitions. I al- 
ways felt that I had a mission and the ability to accomplish it. That 
I should be laid aside at thirty-four years of age, in life's prime, in the 
midst of my opportunities and the hopes of my friends — ah, I could not 
stand it ! I could not submit to God's will in this affliction. Here the 
bright, cheery faith of my earlier life left me, and dark and gloomy 
doubts took its place. I doubted God, His Word, His providence,' His 
love ; and at times I gave up the duties of my religion. Yet at times, 
during these experiences, an overwhelming sense of God^s love and 
claims would melt me to tears. This lasted for two years or more. I 
had to give up my pastorate in '67. I did no preaching until in April, 
'70, an elder visited me from the Greenwood church — a small organi- 
zation of only twenty members, about six miles away, and desired me 
to give them some preaching. I had hoped and longed for some ex- 
pression of divine interest in me, so this very humble one was granted. 
I could only hope for some humble corner in the great vineyard; I 
could not bargain. I replied that I did not know how well I might 
stand the strain of preaching, but that I would try one service a day 
twice a month. So I began, and my heart began to grow soft and 
warm and trustful in the work; and in three months a wonderful 
revival occurred that admitted about forty members to the little church. 
The Lord had again graciously owned me and my poor service, and 
restored to me the joy of His salvation. Then I began to preach twice 
on each alternate Sabbath. The next year I held a two weeks' meet- 
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lumber from a yard each evening before service and seated the room, 
and after services carried it out. It was a most delightful meeting, 
and the results more than doubled the membership of the church. 
This meeing sot this church on its prosperous career. I longed to get 
into full work, and yet I felt that my powers were so crippled that a 
total breakdown might occur from any overstraining. I worked along 
in this humble way among the weak churches with precious evidence of 
some measure of blessing for a few years, until I had reason to believe I 
could take a larger work. But two things seemed to lie across my 
path — the fear to undertake heavy work, and the other fact that I 
was looked upon now as a broken-down man, and so had lost my 
standing with my brethren and the churches. I could not get a large 
field, if even I felt able to fill it. This fact ofttimes would goad my 
feelings. So I said at last, ^Lord, give me a small field and grace and 
strength to fill it well.' And He has graciously granted both re- 
quests. I have never left the Synod of Missouri, and have never 
taken a church outside of Kansas City and Platte Presbyteries. 
Through all the asperities of the war and reconstruction periods — 
periods that invoked mistakes and misconstructions — I have never run 
away from my record.''^ 

After two pastorates in Platte Presbytery, in the churches of 
Oregon and St. Joseph, Dr. Miller returned to the Presbytery of Osage 
to take charge of the church at Nevada. There, he wrote, — "We 
enjoyed many precious outpourings of God's spirit during the pas- 
torate. A Young People's Society and Ladies' Missionary Society and 
a Ladies' Aid Society were organized. In the 4:^ years, of our pas- 
torate, one hundred and eighty members were added — ninety of them 
on profession of faith — and the money raised aggregated nearly 
$10,000. We always thank the Lord and our co-laborers in Nevada 
for tjie work done there." This was the last regular work done by 
Dr. Miller in this Presbytery. In it, as in others of his fields, he was 
ably assisted by his wife and family, who were specially efficient in 
Sunday school and missionary work and in music. For two years the 
entire quartette choir was composed of his two sons and two daughters, 
an 'arrangement "highly pleasing to both the pastor and the congre- 
gation, as the choir gave neither any trouble." 

The remainder of his life was spent in the churches of Tarkio, 
Chillicothe and Cameron, all in Platte Presbytery, in the latter of 
which he died, January 11, 1900. His success cannot be better sum- 
med up than in his own words: "In all these 3^ears I have never 
taken a field that was troubled with candidates; and I have never 
left one that did not have a rush of them, some as many as twenty 
to thirty of them." "I have been strangely directed, ever entering 
fields with reluctance and some degree of resentment, and ever receiv- 
ing such tokens of divine blessing that I was glad I had entered them." 



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JOHN MONTGOMERY. 

The following sketch of one of the most prominent Presbyterians 
ever in this portion of Missouri is furnished by one thoroughly famil- 
iar with his life and work. 

It is impossible in the space assigned to this article to present 
more than the merest outline of the life of a pioneer minister. As- 
sociated as Dr. Montgomery was with the early history of Presbyter- 
ianism in Kentucky and Missouri, laboring in different fields before, 
during and after the Civil War, much of his influence and work was 
made effective by the firmness of conviction upon matters at times 
during this period which were made of inestimable benefit to the 
church through his open and bold advocacy. But above all other 
things, Dr. Montgomery was a preacher of the Gospel. He was plain 
and simple in his manner, but vigorous and earnest. His consuming 
desire was to bring many men to a knowledge of the truth. 

He was born in Danville, Kentucky, October 6, 1810. His 
father some five years afterwards started to move to St. Louis, but 
on the way stopped at Springfield, Kentucky, and that became their 
permanent home. He was a hatter, tanner and coppersmith by trade, 
and the son was taught the trade of his father. 

His early training was not especially marked or religious. Like 
most children at that time, he was taught little more than to say his 
prayers before going to bed, to read occasionally in the Bible and to 
avoid bad company, and that he should grow up a good moral man, 
free from habits which would injure his standing in society. With 
this boy, however, there was not enough in this to satisfy his desires, 
and in the winter of 1826-7, to quote his own words, "I was engaged 
during the noon recess in prayer and reading my Bible, when the 
third chapter of Romans was made blessedly clear to me, and I was 
enabled to lay fully ahold of the glorious plan of salvation therein re- 
vealed.'^ The following spring he united with the church at Spring- 
field. He remained at home, working at his trade until the fall of 
1829. Then packing his wardrobe and other earthly effects into a 
cotton handkerchief, he trudged his way on foot to Danville, where 
he entered Centre College. Through his trade, the doing of odd 
jobs and a little help from the Education Society, he graduated in 

1835. During the next year he taught in the college, at the same 
time pursuing his theological course under Dr. Young. In September, 

1836, he entered the seminary at Princeton and remained there two 
years, when he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Tran- 
sylvania. 

His first work in the ministry was to assist Dr. Cleland in a 
protracted meeting at Harrodshurg, Kentucky, in November, 1838. 
He was invited to supply the church, which he did as soon as he had 
completed a canvass which he had undertaken to raise an endowment 
for a professorship in Centre College, and on May 20, 1840, he was 
ordained and installed pastor of the church. There he remained 
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and the number of communicants increased until when he left, in 1857, 
it was a large, influential and prosperous church. During his min- 
istry there he preached tliree times each Sabbath, twice in town and 
once in the countr}^; c-onducted three Sunday schools, two prayer 
meetings and a great number of revival services in many places south 
and east of Harrodsburg. 

He was married on the 2d day of May, 1844^ to Miss* Kate Ren- 
nick, of Frankfort, Kentucky. His wife was the daughter of a good 
old West Pennsylvania Presbyterian, and on her mother's side 
traced her ancestry through the McAfees and Makamies to the origin 
of the Presbyterian church on this continent. She still survives her 
husband and is now (1901) living with her daughter, Mrs. Mary Zoll, 
in Sedalia. 

In October, 1857, Dr. Montgomery resigned his charge and ac- 
cepted a call to supply the First Church of Pettis near Longwood, 
Missouri. On the 3d of June, 1856, by order of the Presbytery of 
Missouri, Rev. H. M. Painter, then of Boonville, organized this church, 
and Dr. Montgomery began to preach there on the first Sabbath in 
October following. They had no house of worship and the building 
of one was at once entered upon. He moved with his family to near 
Longwood, in the north part of Pettis county and about fifteen miles 
north of Sedalia, and there resided, with temporary interruptions, 
until his death. The house of worship of the First Church of Pettis 
was completed in about eighteen months and was preached in regularly 
three Sundays in each month — the other Sunday being given to 
members residing in Georgetown and vicinity. This continued until 
the beginning of the Civil War. The War interrupted all regular 
preaching services, and yet Dr. Montgomery always found some who 
wanted to hear the Gospel, and in the darkest days of the War he 
rarely missed a Sabbath when he did not preach to some people some- 
where. During three or four months of this time he supplied Dr. 
McPheeters^ church in St. Louis. In the fall of 1864 he entered upon 
the duties of president of Westminister College at Fulton, and sup- 
plied the pulpit of the church in that city. It was a critical time in 
the history of the college. The president and one professor were 
left alone. The endowment had failed, and it was only by the per- 
sistent and unflagging zeal and energy -of one man that, as Dr. Hers- 
man says, "Kept the institution from being engulfed." In October, 
1865, Dr. Montgomery states that he found he had neither the men 
tal nor the physical ability to continue the work, and he was com- 
pelled to resign. 

In 1861 Dr. Montgomery walked over to Sedalia from George- 
town one Sabbath day (in those days men didn^t ride horses near 
the camps of soldiers) and preached one of the flrst sermons ever de- 
livered in that city. He and the Rev. Joshua Barbee, late of Excelsior 
Springs, continued to preach in Sedalia from time to time until 1864 
in such room or place as might be furnished them. During the fall 
of this year Mr. Barbee and Capt. John M. Sneed bought an old 
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enlarged and rebuilt. This was the first house of worship erected 
in Sedalia, and stood for many years where is now the Hotel Huckins, 
on the corner of Second and Lamine Streets. 

In August, 1865, Dr. Montgomery organized the First Presby- 
terian Church of Sedalia, with twelve members. The church building 
was not sufficiently finished to be occupied and the organization was 
effected on August 11th, in a school house situated north of the rail- 
road. He preached for his church until February 25, 1868, riding 
on horseback from his home, fifteen miles north of town, and only 
discontinued at that time on account of a severe bodily injury, which 
disabled him from preaching for more than a year. A call had been 
given him in September, 1868, to the pastorate, but he was never in- 
stalled, thinking that under the circumstances he could not properly 
discharge the duties. In the meantime he was led to the belief that 
at the then approaching meeting to be held in Boonville the Synod 
would be divided. He was opposed to any division and the church 
remained in its connection with the Lafayette Presbytery. Eev. C. 
H. Dunlap was called to supply the church on April 5, 1868, and on 
February 3, 1870, the church entered the Kansas City Presbytery. 

Dr. Montgomery continued to preach to what was called the 
Old School Presbyterian Church (it being composed of those members 
of the First Church who did not go into the ISForthern Assembly) from 
December, 1869, until February, 1870. On the 18th of February, 1870, 
they were organized under the name of the Old School Presbyterian 
Church of Sedalia. They bought the old church building of the First 
Church, and Dr. Montgomery continued to minister to them until the 
fall of 1872, when Rev. J. E. Wheeler was installed as their pastor. 

After giving up this church Dr. Montgomery undertook a work 
at Marshall, Mo., and prosecuted it until the church building was in 
a comfortable condition for occupancy. Then he spent a year, 1875-6, 
preaching at Brownsville. Then he went back for a short period to 
his old charge in Harrodsburg, Ky. This, however, was only a tem- 
porary arrangement, as he left his family- in Missouri and only con- 
templated staying there long enough to help the church out of some 
embarrassment. 

Soon after first coming to the State of Missouri, Dr. Montgom- 
ery had preached from time to time in Longwood, and he held meet- 
ings there from time to time as long as he lived. The early result 
of his labors here was the organization of the church on the 25th of 
September, 1869. In 1876 he took charge of this church and preached 
here regularly until in August, 1877, and until compelled to desist 
through serious illness. In 1866 he organized the church at Lamonte 
and supplied it from time to time in connection with the churches at 
Longwood and the First Church of Pettis. 

Dr. Montgomery continued to preach as his health would admit 
until 1895, when he became too feeble longer to perform this duty. 
He died, greatly beloved, on the 10th day of February, 1899. 



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WILLIAM B. MONTGOMEKY. 

One of the original Mission party that established the Harmony 
Mission in 1821 was the Rev. W. B. Montgomery of Danville, Pa. 
The remainder of his life was spent in that Mission and in others to 
the Osage Indians. The only notices of him that have been seen by 
the present writer are the fragmentary ones in the Missionary Herald. 
in the December, 1834, number of that publication appears (p. 452) an 
account of his death by cholera at the Hopefield Mission, Aug. 17, 
1834. It says: 

"A Frenchman by the name of Beatt (who has an Indian fam- 
ily and is one of the settlers) was the only assistant Mrs. Montgomery 
had through her husband's sickness. His unremitted exertion to save 
the poor Osages who were falling around him proved too great. In the 
midst of his endeavors for their temporal and spiritual good, he was 
taken from among them and from his earthly labor. The messenger 
of death came suddenly and unexpectedly, yet it found him with his 
lamp trimmed and burning. He died a most triumphant death. 
'Oh I' said. Beatt, 'I never saw a man die so happy as that man.^ Soon 
after the attack he exclaimed : 'Can it be that in less than twenty-four 
hours J shall be vralking the streets of the New Jerusalem?' 'I know,' 
said he, 'Whom 1 have believed.' He left messages of love to his 
Missionary brethren all around, exhorting them to fidelity and per- 
severance in their work. To the Osage Missionaries he said: 'Tell 
them not to efive over the Osages, and not to count any sacrifice too 
great for their salvation.' This is a truly mysterious dispensation of 
Divine Providence, just as our dear brother had so far completed the 
Osage language as to be able to communicate to them in their own 
tongue, he was called away. * * 

Such was his zeal for learning the language that a notice in the 
Herald, Aug., 1824, p. 258, says :" The Rev. Messrs. Pixley and Mont- 
gomery have devoted their time principally to the study of the lan- 
guage ; the latter for the attainment of his object having lived several 
months with the Indians, accompanying them on their hunting expe- 
ditions, and depending for subsistence on their precarious means of 
support.'' , 

The obituary continues: "Mr. Montgomery had spent the last 
eight or nine years at the Hopefield Mission, employing a large por- 
tion of his time in acquiring a knowledge of the Osage language and 
reducing it to writing. In accomplishing this object he had made much 
progress; and with some aid from one of his associates, Mr. W. C. 
Requa, he last spring completed an elementary book, embracing also 
translations of various portions of Scripture, the first book ever writ- 
ten in the Osage language." The title of the book is Wahashe Waga- 
ressa Pahurgeh Tse, Boston, 1834. There were 126 pages. Five hun- 
dred copies printed. 



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LEVI R. MORRISON. 
The following letter found among the papers of the late Dr. 
Timcthy Hill is highly interesting from various reasons. It is given 
entire : 

"Cross Timbers, Mo., Jan. 31st, 1861. 

"j;ev. T. Hill: 

"Dear Brother: — My place of missionary labor keeps me about 
half the time from home. On the evening of 25 Dec. I got home from 
one of my tours, and in a few hours was attacked with typhoid pneu- 
monia, which deprived me of reason, and almost of consciousness, for 
two weeks. I am alive by a hairbreadth escape from one of the most 
fatal diseases of the land. 

"On my becoming convalescent, my family showed me your letter 
from St. Joseph, for which I thank you. My reason for not noticing 
your forrper letter of the same purport was neither indolence nor in- 
difference to the good work you are doing. But mine is a very busy 
life. I never could do much at a time by grand, occasional strokes, 
and deem it particularly my duty to keep working away all the time ; 
more bound to be doing something than to be telling what I have been 
doing. But now that a Holy Providence has broken up my plans for 
awhile, and as I am comfortably recuperating, I attend to your resuest 
with pleasure. , 

"I am in my 56th year; w^as born in 1805, in Mecklenburg county, 
I^. C. My father was of Scotch descent — my grandfather a genuine 
Scotchman. My mother was of English extraction. Both my parents 
were pious from their early youth. My father was for many years an 
Elder in the church, in Bedford county, Tenn., whither he removed 
when I was ten years of age. 

"In my fifteenth year it pleased the God of my fathers to turn 
me from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto G-od. 
My views of the beauties of Christ and the glories of redemption, 
gleaming from every part of the Bible and Catechism in which I had 
been diligently taught, soon settled into the form of a prevailing desire 
to preach Christ to my fellow-sinners. But I was quite illiterate ; and 
my father, having suffered severe reverses, was unable to educate me, 
or even to spare my services from the farm. So, leaving the case 
in the hand o^ God, believing that if He intended me to preach He 
would open a way for an education in due time, I toiled on at the plow, 
trying all the time to acquire scriptural information by snatching a 
few moments to read something as material for thought while at my 
labor. 

"Then in my 22d year, my father's little affairs being brought 
into tolerable condition, with one dollar in my pocket, and the blessing 
of the best of parents as a fountain of courage in my heart, I set forth 
on the cherished object of my life, with Murray's Grammar, and all 
beyond a terra incognita. 

"According- to arrangement, T went into the studv of mv elder 
brother. Rev. Silas H. Morrison, long since deceased, who had worked 
his way through an education into the ministry some years before, 



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Upon his removing into Alabama — too far from my mother's spindle 
and needle — I went to the study of Rev. Amzi Bradshaw (late of Tex- 
as, but now deceased), in Wilson county, Tenn., with whom I fin- 
ished my Greek, Science and Theology, havng studied Latin with my 
brother (I never studied Hebrew), remunerating him in a small de- 
gree by assisting him in teaching and otherwise. Being blessed with 
uncommon good health and constitution, I was able to endure more 
study and physical toil than mast students. 

"I have now answered your question with regard to the place 
of my theological education as nearly as the obscurity of the case per- 
mits ; first at my father's hearthstone and plowtail, with the Bible for 
a text-book, the Confession of Faith, Scott's Family Bible, Burder's 
and Witherspoon's Sermons for expositors, and father and mother for 
professors; lectures every Sabbath evening, and as much oftener as 
business permitted. 2d, in the study of Rev. Mr. B — , a log cabin, 
10x14 feet, which has long since shared the fate of Goldsmith's vil- 
lage school-house, where a vigorous, earnest man made great, strong, 
pungent sermons, directed my reading, and did his best to show me 
how to convince men of sin and persuade them to Christ. 

"For these two Institutions I feel as much reverence as any man 
ought for his Alma Mater. 

"Then, unincumbered with debt, and the same amount of money 
(one dollar) on hand with which I commenced my curriculum, I was, 
after much examination, sent forth a probationer by the Presbytery 
of Shiloh, by whom I was ordained one year afterward, April 20, 1832. 

"As you ask for incidents, and I have spoken of two memorable 
dollars, let me tell you of another, of which you may tell the boys as 
an instance of providential faithfulness and bounty. The first dollar 
I ever could call my own I gave to the A. B. S. And, lest I should 
regret it, I bound myself that the next dollar I might have should go 
the same wa}^, and it did. Now I begin to be an old man, have never 
been rich; but to this day I have not had absolute need of a dollar 
but it has been at hand in some honorable way. 

"I have often regretted my want of a Seminary course. I have 
regretted it when conscious that my resources are more limited, and 
my authorities and references fewer than sometimes they should be; 
or when I have seen brethren, not my superiors as I thought, assum- 
ing the conspicuous, and outshining me before the masses and mis- 
leading the giddy on the merits of their Alma Mater. But I have 
not regretted it when I have seen men, really my superiors, contented 
with second-hand mental furniture — thinking and acting on author- 
ity of other men's names — ignoring matters of fact and pursuing ir- 
relevant theories. It makes me not sorry that I have always been 
compelled to do my own thinking in my own way. 

"Your next inquiry regards my ministerial history, etc. 

^^ell, the first two years of my ministerial life were spent in 
the service of the churches of Spring Creek, Smjrrna and Ephesus, 
in Wilson, Rutherford and Davidson counties, Tenn. On all of which 



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the Divine blessing descended to the conversion of about seventy souls 
in that time. By the advice of brethren I then labored two years 
in the towns of Sparta and McMinnville. These churches were very 
feeble and inefficient; and though a few persons were converted, my 
success was not satisfatory; neither could I see the material within 
my reach for building up. 

"Mrs. M. having lost her health, and there being a probability 
that a residence in some mountainous country would be to her ad- 
vantage, I then removed to Athens, in East Tennessee, and took charge 
of the church there, where I remained eleven years, during which 
time the church grew from about fifty to over one hundred members. 
I also served another small church in the vicinity, which more than 
doubled its members. During my residence in this place, the congre- 
gation built a neat and substantial brick church, which I understand 
is now too small. They continue to be a growing church. But a 
revulsion in financial affairs caught a number of my best supporters 
under heavy liabilities, and, with many others, they were crushed. 
After they had struggled nobly under their difficulties for several 
years to sustain me with my expensive family, we mutually sugges- 
ted that I should leave the place to some brother of smaller neces- 
sities ; and, with many tears, we parted. 

"Here, I think, was the best schooling I ever had. On taking 
charge at A., I found myself surrounded with brethren of superior 
advantages ; many of them with large, active minds and noble hearts. 
Besides, Athens happened to be the residence of quite a number of 
professional men of the first order of talents, few of whom were con- 
nected with the church personally, but all of them through their 
families. Now to maintain a standing compatible with usefulness 
among such brethren, and to save my pulpit and my Master's cause 
from disrespect before such a community, didn't I have to work 
and study? 

"I then accepted an invitation from the Church of Gladspring, 
near Abingdon, Ya., where I remained five years. There under the 
shadow of Emory and Henry College, a flourishing Methodist insti- 
tution, manned by clergymen of very respectable talents and learn- 
ing, and my church attended by large numbers of sharp-minded stu- 
dents, I had use for all I knew and perhaps a little more. 

"I served that church half the time, and I think its increase 
was 20 or 25 per cent. The other half of my time was spent in mis- 
sionary labors among the long-neglected people of the rugged moun- 
tains to the north of my residence; and I have reason to think con- 
tributed to prepare the way materially for the now promising young 
churches of Jeffersonville and Thompson's Valley. 

^^ut my time of life had come to gratify (if ever I should) my 
long-eherished desire for the "West. So, in the autumn of 1851, I 
moved to my present location, not a town as some brethren abroad 
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a few humble, praying men and women — people of my first min- 
isterial charge in Tennessee — have made their little farms and set 
up their banners in the name of the Lord. Here I found a church 
consisting of 24 members, organized by Messrs. ^^oel and Renshaw, 
about 1845. It now numbers over 100 communicants. 

"Here is the place of our Presbyterial High School. This peo- 
ple by persevering toil, and with a cash expenditu.re of not more 
than $300, has created church and school property valued at $1,400, 
Two sons of this church have been studying five years for the min- 
istry, and are in a good state of advancement. During my first two 
years in Missouri, I preached half the time to the church at Osceola 
(distant about 30 miles) which has now gone 0. S., and is served 
by Brother Barks of Warsaw. It has never grown much. 

"For the last three years, much of my time has been devoted 
to the churches of Mt. Zion and Springfield, in Greene County, 60 
miles distant from my home. At the decease of Bro. Eenshaw, 
nearly four years ago, these churches were much discouraged, es- 
pecially the former, where he resided, which had recently been much 
diminished by emigrations to California and Oregon. My monthly 
labors in Mt. Zion have been little more than sufficient to maintain 
the church in statu quo. It had nearly doubled its strength, by 
conversions and immigrations, when, within the last year, a respectable 
minority bolted for the 0. S., and divided the church. 

"My information as to the early statistics of our Church is lim- 
ited, as the first volume of the records has never come into my hands. 

1. Little Osage. Organized, I suppose, by Father Dodge. 
Remains weah. Gone 0. S. 

2. Double Branches. By Father Dodge. Little growth. Gone 
0. S. 

3. Deepwater. By whom unknown. Gone 0. S. 

4. Hermon. By Noel. About extinct. 

5. Mt. Zion.* By Noel. Mother of a church in California 
and one in Oregon., IJ. S. 

6. Warbleau.* By D. Weir. Extinct long since. 

7. Bolivar.* Never existed, I think. 

8. Salem. By J. Gallaher, I think. Went 0. S., and then 
disbanded. 

9. Georgetown. I never knew of it. 

10. Warsaw. Gallaher. Gone 0. S. 

11. North Prairie.* Noel and Ryland., H. S. 

12. New Providence. Know nothing of it. 

13. Moreau. Dead born. 

14. Bethsaida. Ditto. 

15. Harmony. Merged its existence into the three first churches 
named. 

Those churches marked with an asterisk (*) were outside the present boundaries 
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16. Little Tebo. Gallaher. Dissolved and its members attached 
to Warsaw. 

17. Gasconade.* I. B. Eicketts. Small growth. U. S. 

18. Walnnt Grove.* Eenshaw and Taylor. Members mostly 
gone to the Pacific. Eemainder attached to Mt. Zion. 

19. New Hope, Ark.* J. McMillan. Small, bnt growing. U. S. 

20. Springfield.* Dr. Bullard. U. S. 

21. Eed Hill.* A. G. Taylor. Nearly dead. IJ. S. 

22. Bentonville, Ark.* A. W. Morrison. Flourishing. TJ. S. 

23. Fayetteville, Ark.* Unknown. Small. TJ. S. 

24. Cold Neck. The first I ever heard of it. 

MINISTERS. 

1. D. Weir. Deceased in 1854, or '5, in Jackson Co., Mo. 

2. N. B. Dodge. Deceased previous to 1851, in Vernon Co. 

3. A. Jones. W. C. 0. S. Deep water. 

4. G. A. M. Eenshaw. Deceased in April, 1857. 

5. I. B. Eicketts. Gone to Texas, in 1859, undismissed. 

6. C. Bradshaw. Deceased, May, 1860, in Vernon Co. U. S. 

7. B. Eyland. Deceased, in 1849, in Polk Co. 

8. I. W. K. Handy. Dismissed. Portsmouth, Va. JJ. S. 

9. W. C. Eequa. Double Branches. 0. S. 

10. W. H. Smith. Eesidence unknown. N. S. 

11. J. V. Barks. Warsaw. 0. S. 

12. A. G. Taylor. W. C. Col. Walnut Grove. D. S. 

13. D. Emerson. Eesidence and connection unknown. 

14. A. W. Morrison. S. S., Bentonville, Ark. U. S. 

15. J. McMillan. Tea. North Prairie. TJ. S. 

16. G. W. Harlan. Tea. Jackson, Mo. 0. S. 

17. J. W. McCord. Mis. Walnut Grove, Ark. U. S. 
"These are imperfect statistics, but the best I can do under 

present circumstances.* 

"Yours in the Gospel, 

"L. E. Morrison. 

"P. S. Could I interest you in behalf of our theological stu- 
dents? We are unable to send them to Seminary. Could you find 
brethren able and disposed to help them to a few books — ^Evidences 
of Christianity (Paley, Alexander, Watson, or equivalents). Home's. 
Introduction, Calvin's Institutes, Dwight's Theology. Any or all 
of the above works — two copies each — expressed to Warsaw, would 
confer lasting good, throus^h two young men of good talents and 
piety. ^ L. E. M." 

For an interesting estimate of Mr. Morrison's work and char- 
acteristics, see the letter of G. W. Harlan on p. 159. 

*Meae:er as they are, they are here inserted because they are in seyeral instances 
more complete than have been found elsewhere by the compiler of this book. 



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EBEN MTJSE. 

One of the most successful workers in Lafayette Presbytery dur- 
ing the reconstruction period succeeding the Civil War was Eben 
Muse, Pastor at Warrensburg. In spite of much division of opinion 
in that church over the Declaration and Testimony, the majority of 
the members with their Pastor remained with the Assembly. A 
large immigration came, which, however, proved almost entirely a 
passing wave. The membership of the church increased rapidly. The 
Pastor's ''^careful, patient and earnest demeanor and hard work made 
it a popular church. His audiences increased. * * The church 
was crowded to its utmost capacity, and all was well. Then came 
a change. Members moved farther west. Others came in, but not as 
fast as the movers went out. * * Then Mrs. Muse became sick, 
almost a helpless invalid, and was taken East. * * The change 
did no good. Then Bro. Muse was taken down sick. His health 
had been failing for some time. Finally he offered his resignation, 
which was very unwillingly accepted by the church." He is still 
warmly remembered by some of his former parishioners as a hard 
worker, a good sermonizer and a faithful Pastor. 



HENRY ADDISON NELSON. 

The coming of Dr. Nelson to the Presbytery of Kansas City was 
a decided addition to its working forces, and one heartily welc?)med 
by all his brethren in the ministry. He came to us after a rich 
experience in the nastorate and in the Professor's chair, in both 
which positions he had wielded an unusuallv large influence and 
was greatly beloved. He had been for ten vears Pastor of the First 
Presbyterian church of Auburn, N. Y., for twelve years Pastor of 
the First Church of St. Louis, Mo., for six years Professor of 
Systematic and Pastoral Theology in Lane Seminary, and for eleven 
years Pastor of the First Church of Geneva, N. Y. He had been 
Moderator of Presbyteries and S^niods in this and other States, and 
Moderator of the New School General Assembly of 1857. 

Descended from a long line of godly New England ancestors, 
nearly all of them office bearers in the Church, he exemplifies in 
his own life the highest qualities of head and heart, and a special 
fitness for the Gospel ministry. Whether in the pulpit or in the 
chair, he has always been clear, scriptural and practical in his teach- 
ing, tender and effective in his appeals, genial and helpful in his 
friendships, wise and faithful in counsel, honored and efficient in 
office. In an eminent de^ee he seems to inherit all the Beatitudes, 
especially that of the peacemaker. Other men may surpass him in 
- generalship or in leadership in a forlorn hope, but none in winning 



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and keeping the affection of all classes of parishioners, pupils and 
neighbors. 

Shortly before coming to this Presbytery, Dr. Nelson had 
spent a year or more abroad, visiting with his son the Mission 
fields of various denominations. One of his daughters (Mrs. Eev. 
W. K. Eddy, of Sidon), had then spent several years in Syria as 
a Missionary, and the son who then accompanied him later be- 
came the Eev. W. S. Nelson, D. D., now a Missionary in Tripoli, 
Syria. An older son has been for many years an honored Elder in 
the West church of St. Louis; a daughter, the wife of the Eev. 
Dr. Henry Bullard, of St. Joseph, Mo. ; and another daughter, a 
teacher in the Western Female Seminary of Oxford, 0. By special 
appointment of the Foreign Board, the Doctor visited as its repre- 
sentative the Missions of our Church in Persia and Syria. By a 
similar appointment of the Board of Missions for Freedmen, he had 
previously visited the Missions of that Board in the South. By 
his own pastoral work, he became thoroughly familiar with thp work 
of Home Missions East and West; and by his Seminary work ac- 
quainted with the workers in all sorts of fields, in every land. 
These unusual experiences and wide acquaintanceships, together 
with his scholarly habits and excellent health, fitted the Doctor 
for a large Christian work long after he had crossed the (so-called) 
ministerial dead line. 

Coming to us at the age of sixty-five, the years he spent in 
the Presbytery of Kansas City were occupied in the care of the 
Kansas City Ladies' College at Independence, and in the pulpit 
of the First Presbyterian church of the same city. Though a 
pronounced Northern man, he was warmly welcomed by all parties 
in that difficult field, and heartily supported in all that he under- 
took. Here he and they expected and hoped that he would spend 
the remaining days of his active ministry. But the denomination 
had a larger claim upon him, and called him to a field where his 
influence would be felt around the world. 

When the General Assembly decided to establish a missionary 
magazine that should take the place of the various magazines pub- 
lished in the interests of the different Boards of the Church, it was 
recognized by all that it would be very difficult to find a man thor- 
oughly fitted for the position of editor of the new publication. It 
needed a man of national reputation, broad culture, wide experience, 
missionary spirit, well acquainted with the work of the entire Church. 
Quite to his surprise, though not to the surprise of his friends, Dr. 
Nelson was chosen to fill the important position of editor of the 
Church at Home and Abroad. The position proved to be one ol 
unusual difficulty. He filled it with honor and a fair degree of 
success, for ten years, until, on reaching the age of 77 years, he 
thought best to resign the laborious duties to a younger man. 



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He ip now a resident of Wooster, Ohio, where he is doing a quiet 
and valuable work among the Foreign Missionaries^ families tem- 
porarily residing there for the sake of attending the University. 



CHAELES DEKAY NOTT. 

The second Minister of the Second church of Kansas City was 
one that had a marked influence on the church and the city, 
which was then growing very rapidly. Though a young man when 
he came among us, he had already held three pastorates, and was 
then in the height of his power as a speaker and of his usefulness as 
a Minister. His first pastorate had been over a Dutch Keformed 
chi.rch in New Jersey, the other two over Presbyterian churolics 
in New York and Illinois. Coming from a family of wealth and 
high standing in the East, he was unaccustomed to the ways of 
tbe West, but. soon made himself popular by his pulpit ability, hi? 
easy manners and his overflowing wit. 

Of him and his work here, Dr. T. Hill wrote years after he 
left: "Mr. Nott was an unusually attractive speaker; genial, ex- 
ceedingly kind and affable in all his intercourse with his people; 
attentive to strangers, and particularly so to young men. He soon 
gathered a house full, and more room was required for the 
growing congregation, and the house was enlarged for the accom- 
modation of those who came. At no time in the history of the 
church has there been so large an attendance of young men, especially 
strangers, as during Mr. Nott^s brief pastorate.'^ 

He remained here less than two years, and left to accept a 
call to a church in St. Louis. He afterward served other im- 
portant churches in the West and in the East, but never one that 
he loved more than that with which he remained so short a time here. 
It is pleasant to add that, at the time this publication goes to press, Dr. 
IsTott is again filling the pulpit of the Second church for a few months 
until the choice of a new Pastor 



HENRY MARTYN PAYNTEK. 

The only sketch of this brother that has come into the hands 
of the writer of these sketches is his biography by his wife, pub- 
lished by Revell, pp. 398. From this it appears that after his first 
pastorate in Vicksburg, Miss., he had several calls to pastoral 
charges, of which he accepted that to Boonville, Mo., in the fall 
of 1854. "The people were true hearted and loyal, his preaching 
was earnest and , effective, and the little church grew and flourished.^' 
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churches among which he held many evangelistic and communion 
services, sometimes attended with revivals. "Pen and voice were 
alike consecrated to God/' His sermons were frequently published 
in the religious press, giving a hint of that popularitv which later 
led to the sale of more than 20,000 copies of his volumes upon 
religious subjects. Thus he continued the quiet duties of his pas- 
torate until after the outbreak of the Civil War, when (as hap- 
pened to many another minister in this State) he was compelled to 
leave his home and church under circumstances that were harsh 
and could not easily be overlooked or forgotten. Of these he 
himself wrote: 

"The writer stayed at home, quietly attending to his duties. 
He neither believed in nor advocated secession. He did not desire 
the overthrow of the Union which his ancestors had helped to es- 
tablish. In case of the total overthrow of the Grovernment, he 
believed that the position of Missouri should be with the South. 
But the very paper in which that idea is found closed with a 
prayer for the Union. One flag, one country, one destiny. This 
was his feeling. But he could not believe that all the guilt of 
this war was rightly placed at the door of the South. He could not 
join in the cry of extermination, nor unite in the wish that the 
South should be laid waste. He could not approve of confiscation 
by military violence. He claimed the right of an American citizen 
to think for himself; and believed in the doctrine in the Confession 
of Faith in the Presbyterian Church — that God alone is the Lord 
of the conscience. But because he could not support the administra- 
tion in all its acts, because he was not an unconditional Union 
man, so-called, because he adhered to the platform for which he cast 
his vote in 1860 — ^the Union, the Constitution and the enforce- 
ment of laws' — he fell under suspicion. His loyalty was doubted. 
He was called a rebel and a traitor, and ''his troubles began.' " 
After several arrests and imprisonments, he was finally banished 
from the State of Missouri to the State of Massachusetts, August 
25, 1862. There he soon found friends and emplojrment as supply 
of churches in Newburyport and Lynn. He never returned as Pastor 
to Boonville, nor was ever again settled as Pastor of a church in the 
South. His only other service in this Presbytery was the supply 
of the First Church of Kansas City for a few months in the winter 
of 1882-3. 

BEISTTO^^^ PIXLEY. 

No sketch of this brother has been found. He was one of the 
ministerial members of the original Harmony Mission party, 1821. 
He appears to have been devoted to the Mission, especially to the 
work of mastering the Osage language and translation, until the 



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removal of the Osages from this State. He and others of the 
Missionaries were allowed by the Board to withdraw temporarily 
from it in 1831. He seems never to have returned to it. That 
year he was commissioned by the A. H. M. S. to preach in Inde- 
pendence, then just started. Probably he died soon after, as we 
hear nothing more of him. 



WILLIAM MELANCTHON POCOCK. 

Among the more recent ex-members of this Presbytery few have 
taken so high a place in its councils as Mr. Pocock, who for five 
years was pastor of the church at Clinton. There he enjoyed the 
confidence and affection of his own congregation and- was ever one 
of the foremost clergjrmen and citizens of the place. Coming in 
the prime of life, he soon made his influence quietly but effectively 
felt for gpod in many ways. His experience on the Home Mission 
field in Kansas led to his being given a place almost immediately 
upon the Home Mission Committee of this Presbytery, and not long 
after to its chairmanship, which he retained as long as he was 
connected actively with the Presbytery. He was also elected Mod- 
erator sooner than is usual after being a member of the body, and 
later a commissioner to the General Assembly. It was therefore 
with much regret that he was missed from the work he loved and 
in which he was so useful. Owing to continued and serious ill 
health he was compelled to resign his charge and seek recuperation 
in a milder climate. He did not remove his membership from 
this Presb3rtery until upon the recovery of his health he accepted a 
charge in Ohio. 



BENJAMIN FRANKLIN POWELSON. 

Born on a farm in that part of Virginia which is now West 
Virginia, Mr. Powelson went in due season to Washington College, 
Pa., from which he graduated in 1860. Thence he went to Western 
Theological Seminary where he remained until 1862, when he en- 
listed in the Union Army. After serving his country as Sergeant 
and First Lieutenant, from August, 1862, to October, 1865, he re- 
sumed his theological studies, and graduated from Western in 1867. 
Though he had been licensed to preach several months before enter- 
ing the Army, his first regular preaching, beginning July 1, 1867, 
was in the churches of Deep water and Little Osage, then in connection 
with the Presbytery of Southwest Missouri. He was ordained by 
that Presb5rtery, September 10, 1868. Of his work in that field, 
Mr. Powelson writes : 'When the M. K. & T. R. R. in 1870 went 



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through that region, about six miles southeast of the Deepwater 
church, so many moved away from the locality that the old church 
was dissolved and a new one effected at Montrose. Dr. Jones gave 
much labor and care to the Deepwater church. I relieved him in 
1867. He died in April, 1870, was ever intensely devoted to the 
interests of the church." Of his other work in the bounds of this 
Presbytery, he writes: "Took active part in this organization 
(Montrose), and in building church. Was Stated Supply of this 
church till January, 1876, with the exception of nine months, 
from September, 1873, to June, 1874, when I served the church of 
Neosho, Mo. I had charge of Butler Academy from January, 1876, 
to May, 1879." 

LYCURGUS RAILSBACK. 

One of the most remarkable characters that was ever in the 
ministry among us was the Rev. Lycurgus Railsback. None ever 
knew him (and few ever knew of him) without being struck with 
his peculiar personality, totally unlike any other they ever met. 
None that ever knew him can forget him. No sketch that might be 
prepared could give a stranger a thoroughly correct idea of the 
man. We are fortunate, however, in being able to present a sketch 
prepared by his friend and Seminary mate, the Rev. W. M. New- 
ton, who had labored by him and with him under a great variety of 
circumstances. He writes: 

"The Rev. Lycurgus Railsback was converted when he was 
twenty-one years of age, under the ministry of the Rev. Thornton 
A. Mills, at Indianapolis. He had Just entered upon a business 
career with brilliant prospects of success. He at once gave up his 
business to prepare for the ministry. Having no money, he labored 
with his own hands to pay his way through six years of study at 
Wabash College. He graduated in 1862. In 1863, in the midst 
of his course in Lane Seminary, he went into the Army as a Mis- 
sionary. In this service he spent one 3^ear, and in that time visited 
and distributed Christian literature to seventy-five thousand soldiers. 
The last vear of the war he was commissioned as Chaplain. Two 
hundred of his regiment were converted. After the war, he finished 
his course in the Seminary, and spent two years in Cincinnati as 
a City Missionary. Part of the fruit of this work was forty converts, 
four of whom entered the ministry of the Presbyterian Church. The 
next two years were given to Mission work in New York City. Here 
he set on foot the first Mission for the Chinese in this country. 
Two of his converts in this Mission went to China as Missionaries. 

"From 1871 to 1875 he was Pastor of the church at Juneau, 
Wis. He found the church a discouraged handful, about to dis- 
band. His pastorate there was a succession of revivals. A hundred 



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and sixteen converts were added to the church. In 1875 he was 
called to the Third Church of Kansas City, Mo., and from this time 
until the close of his life, his labors were chiefly in the bounds of 
Kansas City Presbytery. He had charge of the Third Church 
for eight years. Into this church he received one hundred and fifty- 
five members. Out of this church, during his pastorate, grew [in 
part] the Central Presbyterian Church of Armourdale [now called 
the Central Church of Kansas City, Kan.] Also twenty-seven mem- 
bers of the congregation [were among those that] united to form 
the First Presbvterian Church of Kansas City, Kan., and ten others 
[among those that] formed the Fourth Church of Kansas City, Mo. 

"The last fourteen years of his life were devoted chiefly to 
evangelistic work, chiefly in the country and village churches of 
Kansas City Presbytery. In these years he held over seventy series of 
meetings. He left no record of their results; but when he died, 
it was estimated that more than half the membership of the churches 
in which he labored were converted in his revival meetings. The 
last two years of his life he held the office of Pastor-at-large of the 
Presbytery. In his last report to the Presbytery, after deploring 
the meagerness of results as compared with other years, he sums up 
the work as follows : ^Held 222 services ; made 243 visits ; prayed in 
75 families; received into the churches 78 members.^ 

"Mr. Eailsback had remarkable gifts as an Evangelist. His 
methods never lost their freshness and power. Indeed he had little 
method, except to pray and preach with tremendous energy and per- 
sistence. Churches came to expect that as a matter of course there 
would be a revival when Mr. Eailsback came. We never knew a 
church to be disappointed. Distinguished Evangelists sometimes 
fail. We never knew him to fail. Distinguished Evangelists will 
not go back to the same churches except after an interval of years. 
Mr. Eailsback returned to the same churches year after year with 
increasing power. There are churches in this Presbytery in which 
he has held as many as six series of meetings; and from every one 
of them he came bringinsf in his sheaves. 

"What were the elements of his success? He was a preacher of 
unusual power. He was somewhat handicapped by defects in his 
early education, and it was easy to point out defects in his sermons 
and manner of delivery, but he possessed in large measure the natural 
elements of eloquence. As a speaker he was magnetic, S3rmpathetic, 
mightily in earnest and frequently broadly humorous. He had a 
remarkable way of changing instantly from humorous sally to the 
most tender and earnest appeals. He was unlike anybody else, a 
law unto himself. A common saying among his acquaintances was: 
'There is but one Eailsback.^ An editor reporting one of his col- 
lege speeches says: Tiycurgus Eailsback had the merit of natural- 
ness par excellence. He is decidedly like himself, and unlike every- 



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body else. We always like to hear him speak. It is so refreshing to 
hear one who goes in without fear of transgressing the established 
rules.' These characteristics he always retained. 

" Mr. Eailsback had great tact in conversation with the un- 
converted, especially among those classes with whom it was his pre- 
ference to labor. Under cover of his peculiar humor, he could get 
very close to a man, and pour in convicting truth into his mind 
without offending him. He was untiringly persistent in pleading 
with individuals. Indifference, rebuff or opposition he paid no heed 
to; and where other ministers would have thought there was nothing 
more to be done, he had only just begun. Yet he had always a deep 
sense of dependence upon God, and while he labored most abundantly, 
he wrestled with God as Jacob wrestled of old with the Angel." 

To this eulogistic notice it is proper to add a few words. Mr. 
Kailsback's methods, both in the church and out of it, were so 
unique that he naturally made some enemies as well as many friends. 
But none could deny his intense earnestness, in everything he under- 
took, however much they differed from his judgment. No field was 
too hard for him or too uninviting. Sometime before coming to 
Kansas City he wrote to Synodical Missionary Timothy Hill a letter 
different from those usually sent to such Superintendents of Mis- 
sions. He said: "I am now wishing to enter some work, and still 
think of Kansas City. You wrote me a year ago that there was no 
field open there. I wish again to ask in regard to three different 
fields of labor: First, could work among colored people be made a 
specialty ? -"^ Second, is there any Mission field, building up a Sab- 
bath school and church among the poor? Third, are there any 
small new churches in or near, say twenty miles of Kansas City? 
I do not write to you from the fact that there are no openings for me 
elsewhere.^' * * 

In the summer of 1883 one of the Kansas City papers contained 
the following account, under the heading, "Mixing Eeligionsr" "A 
pleasant incident of practical fraternity in church work occurred 
yesterday. Among recent converts added to Eev. Dr. Eailsback's 
Presbyterian church in West Kansas City were two railroad men, 
who desired to be baptized by immersion. To accommodate them 
the baptistery of Calvary Baptist church was tendered. But here 
came in another query. Eev. Dr. Eailsback could not baptize them, 
the doctrines of his Church prohibiting such a course, ^ and the 
Pastor of the Calvary church had to decline because the men were 
not members of his Church, In this emergency Eev. E. M. Barns, 
Pastor of the G. A. M. E. church, was asked to officiate and kindly 
consented. A Presbyterian baptized in a Baptist pool by a Methodist 

1. He was chaplain of a Negro regiment during the Civil War, widely known as the 
"singing regiment." He always had great interest in colored people, and influence over 
them. 

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minister is something unique." But incidents as unique were by no 
means uncommon in the work of Mr. Eailsback. 



GEORGE A. M. REN^SHAW. 

The sketch of this excellent brother belongs perhaps rather 
under the history of the Presbytery of Ozark than under that of 
Kansas City, but is given in part here on account of his close con- 
nection with the other members and churelies of the original Presby- 
tery of Harmony, later known as Osage and Kansas City. Though 
settled over the Mt. Zion church in Greene county, he preached in 
the early days as far north as Henry county, whidh is within our 
bounds. He was perhaps a typical specimen of the East Tennessee 
preachers that did so much for the establishment of Presbyterianism 
in this region. A long obituary notice of him, from the pen of L. R. 
Morrison, June 18, 1857, appeared in the Presbyterian Wi'lness, from 
which we quote a few paragraphs : 

"On coming to Missouri he took charge of the infant church of 
Mt. Zion, of which he died the Pastor. On surveying the work before 
him, he seemed to have viewed it probable that to do it would 
cost him his life. And though his humility never dared to speak 
the bold language of the Apostle, yet day by day he lived the senti- 
ments, 'None of these things move me ; neither I count my life dear 
unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the 
ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the 
Gospel of the grace of God.' To meet his Presbytery and S5nQod 
was often a journey of four hundred miles, forth and back, facing 
tJie heavy, piercing prairie wind by day and lodging at night in such 
shanties as he might find; and returning home but to prolong the 
endurance of the same hardships the year around — living, lodging, 
preaching in cabins — now assisting his feeble, uncomplaining wife 
on washing day — now taking her place when sickness prostrates her 
— ^now cutting and sledding wood till drenched with perspiration 
and forthwith away across the chilly prairie, on an errand or an 
appointment. Soon bronchitis, neuralgia, rheumatism, anno nice 
their presence. * * Thus Bro. Renshaw lived, labored, suffered on 
losing, it would seem, his sense of pain in the joys of his Master's 
work — ^wearing a smile that told of a fountain of inward kindness 
and comforts of which his modesty seldom dared to speak — seldom 
daring to speak of his successes, though he was seldom many months 
without having new seals to his ministry. * * 

"In all his relations as a man and a Minister, Brother R. was 
a model man. And after all we have said of him, we feel, as he 
would often express himself, on the higher themes of the Savior's 
loveliness, ^What we have said seems almost slander.' As a preacher 



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he was always pertinent, concise, and simple. More anxious to be 
understood than admired, I doubt whether he ever attempted to 
frame an eloquent sentence in his life. Yet he was often eloquent, 
never contemptible. Excessive distrust of his own abilities put 
upon him constant application to the sacred writers and the more 
evangelical poets for forms of idea and expressions; and yet you 
would feel, as few other men could make you feel, that neither indo- 
lence nor pedantry is there, but that the speaker has such a rever- 
ence for his holy theme he dares trust its utterance to no language 
but such as the Holy Ghost teacheth. * * 

*^If he had been less fearful of unfitting himself for the ser- 
vice of the lowly, by reciprocating the courtesies of more cultivated 
society; if he had extended his hand less timorously to accept the 
deferential welcome with which intelligent society everywhere greeted 
him; if he could have seen how little there is in the frost work of 
fashion, the inflations of pride, the pomposities of wealth, to inti- 
midate such a man as he, we think he might have spent his life 
somewhat more comfortably to himself and usefully to men. But 
his faults — if faults they were — were such as few men are in danger 
of imitating. They seem to us but the shadows of a bashful tem- 
perament cast over his Christian humility. He has done his work, 
and done it well. May we so follow him as he followed Christ." 

As Dr. Handy wrote, "he was a noble fellow, exceedingly amiable 
and pious, a fine extempore preacher, but modest in the extreme. In 
his dress and manners he was plain and humble." Would that we 
had more like him to-day! 

WILLIAM COMB EEQTJA. 

The longest lived member ever connected with this Presbyter/ 
was the Eev. Wm. C. Requa, a member of the first Missionary band 
sent out from New York (1820) to the Mission among the Osages 
in the Indian Territory. He was later transferred to the Harmony 
Mission, in the neighborhood of which he spent the remainder of his 
long and useful life. The only sketches of his life that we have 
seen are these that appear in the family genealogy (The Family of 
Requa, 1678-1898, pp. 41-42) and one prepared for the press at the 
time of his death by Dr. Timothy Hill, from both of which extensive 
quotations are here made. 

The notice in the genealogy says: "The Rev. William Comb 
[Requa] whose picture is here given,* studied at North Salem Acad- 
emy, N. Y., and went out in 1820, under the direction of the Pres- 
byterian Board [United Foreign Missionary Society] as missionary 
to the Osage Indians at Fort Gibson, Ark., [now I. T.]. Washington 
Irving, in one of his works, pays a high compliment to his former 

*Aswe were unable to obtain a photograph of any of the missionaries or of the 
buildings of Harmony Mission, the wood cut of Dr. Requa, (facing p. 44) which is not 
very good, is the only pictorial reminder of the Mission we are able to present. 



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neighbor and friend, Eev. William Comb Eequa, whose Mission sta- 
tion he visited in one of his excursions to the far West. Two years 
later, in 1822, the Eev. William Comb married Susan Comstock, by 
whom he had two children. In 1832 the Mission was disbanded, and 
Mr. Eeqna removed with his family to [the vicinity of] Bntler, Bates 
county. Mo., wliere he took up uovernment lana, being allowed a 
bounty for his services in the war of 1812. In 1833 his first wife 
died; and in 1837 he -married Jane Montgomery, who lived only 
one year. In 1840 he married Sarah A. Nutting, by whom he had 
nine children. He was farmer, physician and preacher, having 
erected a church in which he held services on the Sabbath. 

"During the Civil War his church and buildings were burned, 
and his family compelled to seek safety in Kansas. Mr. Eequa en- 
joyed a long and eventful life. Born under the administration 
of Washington, he outlived both Lincoln and Grant. A soldier of 
the war of 1812, he also suffered much in the War of the Eebellion. 
Prom the classic halls of North Salem Academ}^, N. Y., he vol- 
unteered to go as a teacher and physician to the Indians on the 
frontier. Parts of the New Testament he translated into the Osage 
tongue, and gave twelve years of his early life exclusively to Mis- 
sionary work. 

"His biographer writes: ^A leading trait of his character was 
his conscientious performance of duty. Being for many years the 
only physician and almost the only minister for many miles around_, 
he was kept fully employed, often by night as well as day. No call 
was ever neglected. It is to be hoped that he was paid for his 
medical services, for he has often been heard to say that 
one dollar was all that he ever received for preaching. 
Yet his preaching appointments were all met. The love 
of Christ constrained him to labor on till obliged by old age to 
simply wait the coming of the Master.^ Mr. Eequa died in 1886, in 
his 9 2d year, having practiced as a physician and preached the G-ospel 
sixty years. His living children, with one exception, reside in Bales 
County, Mo. They are all members of the Presbyterian church.^' 

In the sketch prepared by Dr. Hill it is said: "From his name 
and the region whence he came, he was undoubtedly of Huguenot 
ancestry, than which no better blood has ever been found in this or 
any other country.^^ '^The Family of Eequa,^ above mentioned, shows 
that he was the fifth in descent from Gabriel Eequa, a Huguenot 
born near Eoehelle, France, 1678, who emigrated first with his parents 
to England, and in December, 1689, to America, settling at New 
Eoehelle, N. Y. In the Mission among the Osages in iho Indian 
Territory "Mr. Eequa is at first designated as farmer and mechanic, 
but soon after is designated as catechist and superintendent — indi- 



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eating that his particular business was to look after the secular 
affairs of the Mission, while he was at the same time expected to 
exercise his gifts as religious teacher in a manner less formal than 
by regularly preaching the Gospel. The Osage Mission had two 
centers of operations, one at Union in the Indian Territory, and the 
other at Harmony in Bates County, Mo. Mr. Eequa^s life was chiefly 
spent in connection with the work in the Territory; but he came at 
length to the neighborhood of the Harmony Mission, and settled 
for his home. He acquired the language of the Osages sufficiently 
to impart to them much religious instruction in it, and he was useful 
to them as a physician. I have not been able to find the date of his 
regular ordination as a minister. It was undoubtedly only after he 
had become somewhat advanced in life. His name appears in the 
Minutes of the Assembly as a member of the Presbytery of Osage for 
the first time in 1849, as Stated Supply for the Little Osage Church. 

"Mr. Requa was the last of the Mission band to abandon the 
Osages, and only gave up when repeated removals and continued 
opposition rendered it apparent that little could be done for their 
welfare. He did not see the measure of success that he expected ; but 
in his case, as in many others, the Foreign Missionary was the pioneer 
Home Missionary, and the work done for the Indian prepared the way 
for the Church with the Indians' stronger brother, the white man. 
In a quiet and peaceful age, this man who bore untold and long 
continued hardships, descended to his final rest, falling to sleep in 
Jesus, June 3, 1886, at the ripe age of 92, much the senior in age of 
any in this Synod. No other man connected with it has ever attained 
equal age. May we who remain emulate his faith, his industry and 
patience, till the Master shall call each in His time to our final rest.'' 



DAVID SCHLEY SCHAFF. 

The present Professor of Church History in Lane Theological 
Seminary is too well known to need any extended sketch here. 
Though he had had but one pastorate before coming to Kansas City, 
he came with a mind unusually well stored and with a thorough 
training in all matters literary and ecclesiastical, such as might have 
been expected of the son of Dr. Philip Schaff, the eminent Church 
Historian, and of one that had enjoyed the best that could be given 
by American and foreign University training. He at ouc(^ look 
high rank among us for his pulpit ability, and for the thoroughness 
with which he did all his work. From 1884 to 1887 he was the 
efficient Stated Clerk of this Presbytery, which, on his departure 
from the Pastorate, placed on record its appreciation of him as "an 
accomplished scholar, an excellent pastor and preacher, and a most 
efficient co-presbyter." It also bore testimony to his "very success- 



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ful work in the First Church, the membership of which, during his 
ministry of five years, has been increased by the addition of about 250 
names, and their new property secured, valued at about $70,000/' 



WILLIAM HENRY SMITH. 

One of the few men ordained by the first Osage Presbytery was 
Mr. Smith, who proved one of its strongest New School and anti- 
slavery members. He began work in Hickory and Polk counties in 
1849. In one of his letters from that field he gives a graphic picture 
of conditions then prevailing in this part of the country, from which 
it may be interesting to quote a paragraph. He says: "There are 
causes which seem to hinder the rapid growth of the first. The 
Gospel has to contend against Antinomianism, Two- Seedism, Camp- 
bellism, etc. And a serious hindrance to the progress of pure and 
undefiled religion is an uneducated ministry. Ephemeral preachers 
are numerous. They have come up over the land like the frogs upon 
Eg3rpt, and seriously injure the influence of an educated ministry. 
Many of them are great lovers of whisky, and doggedly oppose all 
benevolent operations. With many like themselves they have weight. 
They have degraded the pulpit very much, and in many instances 
cause the doctrine according to godliness to be evil spoken of . Such 
preachers will have their day and then pass away. My two churches 
are thirty-five miles apart. At one I preach twice a month, at the 
other once. One of the congregations has resolved to build a church 
this year, notwithstanding their feebleness. Most of the places of 
worship are wretched log cabins." 

Another letter written from Calhoun in 1853 says: have 
now six regular places of preaching, and intend (Providence permit- 
ting) to preach at another place next Sabbath evening. Five . of 
these places are in this county and two in Pettis county. My field is 
too large for one sower of our faith; I cannot cultivate it properly." 
He then goes on to tell of the encouraging features of his work and 
to describe a visit to the bedside of a dying slave, whose dying mis- 
tress only a few weeks before had exhorted him to meet her in 
Heaven. In another letter he reports an interesting revival in the 
Calhoun (Salem) Church, in 1855, and adds: "This people have 
not erected a house of worship in vain." 

His letters all have a cheerful tone until about the time of the 
withdrawal of the A. H. M. S. from work in Missouri, which he 
seriously regretted, as it led to the disorganization of the New School 
work in this state, and to the disintegration of the Presbytery of 
Osage. He was one of the last to leave it, going to Kansas about 
1860. In June, 1857, he wrote the Secretary of the Missouri Home 
Missionary Society, giving an account of the wreck of the Presbytery 



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then existing : "I cannot be sustained without aid from abroad, and 
unless that comes I must either leave the state or resort to some 
secular occupation. Now when the immigration to this region is 
immense, when the eastern people as well as others are settling up 
our prairies, we are crippled by the want of proper support — must 
leave in a great measure the work of the ministry to obtain a living ! 
Our Church is not going to do much in western Missouri without 
preachers can be placed in circumstances to labor more effectively. 
Bro. Jones, because of his age and affliction of the throat, is thinking 
about giving up his charge. Bro. Bradshaw is almost superannuated. 
Bro. Eequa is practicing medicine and is not doing much in the 
ministry; and Bro. Eenshaw has recently deceased, so that you see we 
are weak in men and means — not so much in means perhaps as in 
disposition to aid in supporting the Gospel." 

In the absence of the records of the original Osage Presbytery 
one other letter is worth quoting in part. It was written in 1871, 
evidently from memory rather than from written memoranda. In 
answer to some inquiries by Dr. Timothy Hill, he wrote: 'TTour 
list as sent me is not exactly correct, in the matter of ordination. I 
send one so far as I know. Ministers — B. Dodge, A. Jones 
(ordained), E. P. Xoel, B. Eyland, G. A. M. Eenshaw, I. B. 
Eicketts, I. W. K. Handy, C. Bradshaw, D. Weir, W. C. Eequa 
(ordained), Wm. H. Smith (ordained), A. G. Taylor, D. Emerson, 
J. Y. Barks (ordained), L. E. Morrison, A. W. Morrison (ordained), 
John McMillan, G. W. Harlan (ordained). Churches — Little Osage, 
Vernon Co. ; Deepwater, Henry Co. ; Marmateau, Vernon Co. ; Mt. 
Zion, Greene Co. ; "Warsaw, Benton Co. ; Salem, Henry Co. ; Bethesda ; 
Harmony, Bates Co. ; Mt. Pleasant, Benton Co. ; Hermon, Polk Co. ; 
Springfield, Greene Co. ; North Prairie, Hickory Co. ; Bentonville, 
Benton Co., Ark. ; Eayetteville, Payette Co., Ark. ; New Hope, Car- 
roll Co., Ark., Gasconade, Wright Co., Georgetown Pettis Co.; 
Cold Neck, Pettis Co. ; Moreau, Pettis Co. ; Little Tebo, Benton Co. ; 
Walnut Grove, Greene Co. ; Eed Hill, Greene Co." This list srives a 
good idea of the extent of the primitive Presbytery, which covered all 
our present territory, part of that now belonging to St. Louis Pres- 
bytery, and all that now belonging to the Presbytery of Ozark. 



DWIGHT KELLOGG STEELE. 

The following sketch is contributed by one of Mr. Steele's War- 
rensburg parishioners. 

"The pastorate of the Eev. D. K. Steele in Warren^burg was 
marked by the degree of advancement along all lines of church work. 
Eev. Steele was a man of strong individuality and deep convictions. 
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preached Christ and Him crucified. He was gifted in prayer; and 
many souls were led to see the light by his earnest pleadings at the 
throne of grace. Often, as the years roll by and the congregation 
congratulates itself on the present prosperity of the church, it can say 
with satisfaction that this is the result in a large measure of the 
prayers and tears on bended knees of Rev. Steele and his devoted wife. 

"Soon after beginning his work here, Rev. Steele organized the 
first Young People^s Society ever organized in this city, which in 
these l&vBT years is called the Christian Endeavor Society, and is the 
strong right arm of this church. About that time, Mrs. Steele, who 
always had the spiritual welfare of the children at heart, organized 
them into a Mission Band. These children, from that early train- 
ing, have become Christian workers in different departments of the 
church, especially in the Sabbath school, which was formerly held at 
the 'Mission Chapel of the First Presbyterian Church^ in the eastern 
part of town, where Mr. and Mrs. Steele were true Home Missionaries. 

"Rev. Steele was the first Pastor of this church to annually 
observe Children's Day and Easter with appropriate exercises. From 
that time this church has always celebrated these events vnth due 
ceremony. But 'Chicken Pie Supper' — ^most emphatically a Presby- 
terian institution of this church — is the annual reminder of Mr. 
and Mrs. Steele. It was given in November, the Friday night before 
Thanksgiving, every year during their stay with this church, and 
has been observed every year since that time, until now it is not 
only a Presbyterian but a Warrensburg event to which all our citizens 
hungrily look forward. Financially it is a great success." 



ROBERT SMITH SYMINGTON. 

The following letter was received in Feb., 1900, from Dr. Sym- 
ington, then a resident of Danville, Cal. A reference to the original 
records of the Presbyteries shows that the Doctor is slightly wrong 
on some of his dates, which can well be excused after a lapse of over 
50 years. The letter was written in reply to a letter of inquiry by the 
Rev. John B. Hill, who desired information concerning the early 
ministers and churches of the Presbytery of Kansas Citv. The reply 
covers that point and several other points of interest, especially to 
the older residents of Jackson County. The part of the letter relating 
to himself and to Jackson County is as follows : 

In 1847, * the Synod of Missouri met in Lexington, 
Lafayette County. The Home Mission Committee reported 
a vast field of labor opening up in the western part of Missouri 
and in Kansas Territory, of which Independence was the center. A 
New School church had already been organized there, and the Rev. 

*Record shows 1849. 



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F. R. Gray was laboring among them as Stated Supply. But there 
were a few Old School brethren residing there, who did not co-operate 
with them. A short time previous to this the Rev. W. H. Hall, from 
Kentucky, and Dr. Yantis, then Pastor of the Presbyterian church 
at Lexington Mo., held a meeting and gathered quite a congrega- 
tion around them. When Synod met at Lexington, Brother Patton, 
one of the number, was sent down to procure, if possible, a Stated 
Supply, or Missionary to labor among them. Dr. Yantis proposed that 
I should be sent "to preach at Independence and in the regions 
beyond.^^ The Missouri Presbytery to which I belonged, met on the 
floor of Synod, and I was transferred to the Presbytery of Lafayette, 
and by it sent as a Missionary to that field. At the next meeting 
of Lafayette Presbyter;y a Committee was appointed 
to organize a church at Independence, which was accordingly done. .1 
was elected Pastor. With no church, no Sabbath school, an organiza- 
tion of only ten members, it was quite discouraging. And when we 
met in the "Old Court House" — about three in each corner and one 
to lead the singing, standing by the Judge^s stand, which was my 
pulpit — it was quite chilly. 

In 1849 came the California gold fever, and with it the Asiatic 
cholera. Two of Bro. Gray's church officers died of cholera. He 
resigned his charge, and the night he preached his farewell sermon 
(his text was: "Not this man but Barabbas.") an explosion of gun- 
powder occurred, which shook the church to pieces. The lot and the 
debris were sold to the Baptist brethren. This left us an open field. 
The following year we erected a large and elegant brick church, and 
paid for it. Our membership now numbered sixty. By permission 
of Session, I have always used my fifth Sabbaths and the 4 o'clock 
p. m. hour for Missionary labor. 

In 1848 I gathered a few Presbyterian people together in Jack- 
son county, near Sibley, and Presbytery organized them into the Six 
Miles Church. Shortly after the Pleasant Hill Church was organized 
in Cass county. For each of these churches a commodious brick li.^'u&e 
was erected and paid for. In 1850 a few Presbyterian families 
located in Westport, a few miles west of Independence, on the 
border line of Missouri. To these people I preached occasionally, 
and soon after this a church was organized, and a Union church was 
built. 

In 1851 the iN'orth Missouri Presbytery was organized,^ 
embracing the territory north of the Missouri River to the 
Iowa line and east as far as the west line of the Missouri Presbytery. 
Within this boundary were a great many feeble churches. Rev. R. 
H. Allen and I were appointed Evangelists to visit these churches 
and hold special meetings with them, and to organize churches 

1. In this place and above, the doctor should have said the "Presbytery of Up- 
per Missouri." The Presbytery of Lafayette was not organized until 1857. 

2 He evidently refers to the Presbytery of Upper Missouri, organized in 1844, 



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in destitute places. That year I preached three hundred and sixty 
sermons and lectures. This proved too much for me. When the 
excitement of the occasion was over, I found myself prostrated 
with "minister's sore throat." I found it necessary to give up my 
charge at Independence, which I did the following year. 

In 1852 the Synod of Missouri met in Fulton, and resolved to 
build a Synodical College. I was elected Financial Agent. My field 
was the state of Missouri, and my object to secure a fund that would 
justify the Synod in commencing the desired work. In traveling over 
the state and doing comparatively little public talking, my health 
improved rapidly, and when the Synod met in ,1854, I was able to 
enter upon the active duties of the ministry. I resigned my position 
as Financial Agent, and removed to Pleasant Hill, and accepted 
an invitation to preach as Stated Supply for the two little churches 
that I had organized while Pastor at Independence. While there, I 
built and operated a Female Seminary, believing it would greatly 
advance the work of the church. 

By this time Kansas City had become the most important ship- 
ping point on the Upper Missouri. When Presbytery met in 1854, ^ 
I was appointed Stated Supply for Westport and Kansas 
City. When we erected the building for the Seminary 
in Pleasant Hill, I agreed, if they would assist me in the 
enterprise, I would remain with them two years. I remained there 
tour — filling my appointments in my distant field every Sabbath — 
thirty miles away — riding horseback or in my buggy. On one occa- 
sion, when I had reached the bleak, cold ridge dividing the waters 
of Big Creek and the Little Blue, a fierce northwest wind blew strong 
in my face. I thought of returning to my warm fireside. But it 
occurred to me : This is the first time in my life I have ever turned 
back from -an appointment. I turned the head of my horse to the 
wind, and spurred him on. 

In 1855 2 I sold my Seminary to Rev. James T. Lapsley, and 
removed with my family to Kansas City. The immigration to the 
city was so great at this time that I failed to rent a house in the city, 
and was compelled to take quarters in a little log cabin, 12 feet 
square, on Bro. McCoy's farm, IJ miles from the city,^ until I 
could build a residence of my own. Services were then held in the 
old Court House on the corner of 3d and Main streets. 

1. The record in the minutes of the Upper Missouri. April 11, 1857, reads: "A 
request Avas received from the Pleasant Hill church, asking; for the services of R. S. Sym- 
ington, for half his time, at a salary of .$300. Also lor the same, and for half his time, 
from the Westport church, at a salary of $300. Also for the same, from individualfs at 
Kansas City, at a salary of $300. Presbytery consented to the request from the church 
at Westport and from the people of Kansas City." 

2. From other sources the date is found to have been 1857. 

3. Near the present Southwest comer of Thirty-fourth an<i Campbell streets. 



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In the spring of 1857 Presbytery appointed a Committee, con- 
(Sisting of Rev. Thos. A. Bracken and myself, Ministers, and Col. 
Moseby Grant, Elder, "to visit Kansas City, and if the way be clear, 
organize a church." On the 25th of May, same year, the Committee 
met and organized the First church of Kansas City, in the house of 
Mr. Barclav. C. M. Root and William P. Allen were elected Elders, 
and J. C. McCoy and Samuel Piatt, Deacons. A long warehouse 
belonging to Bro. McCoy was secured and converted into a house of 
worship. In a few days it was furnished with pulpit and pews. 
In 1860 we purchase"H a lot on the corner of Grand Avenue and 
Walnut street.* and material was collected, and the excavation had 
been commenced, when the Civil War stopped all further movements 
in that direction. About this time Rev. Alex. Mechatt was elected 
Pastor of the Westport Church, and all my time was occupied with 
Kansas City and additions. 

In 1860 I was requested by the several denominations of the city 
to gather up the religious statistics of the city. * * I give them 
below: (I give them in the order of time of organization.) 

Roman Catholic. — Organized 1837, by Father Roux, Parish 
Priest, called "Parish of Kansas City." In 1824 Rev. Father De 
Smidt visited this point, and blessed the marriages of the French 
trappers from the Rocky Mountains, who had formed marriage 
connections with Indian Squaws. Father Donnelly arrived iu 1845 ; 
found "400 souls" in the congregation, chiefly half breeds and 
Canadian hunters. He permanently settled there in 1856. Since 
then the congregation has increased to 2,000. This embraces all 
within the bounds of Westport, Kansas City and Indian Territory. 
At the jubilee there were 700 communicants. This comprises the 
strength of the church. In 1859 there were 31 marriages, 107 bap- 
tisms, and 62 deaths (Donnelly). 

M. E. South — Organized 1846, in the woods near Kansas City 
with four members, by Rev. J ames Porter, Local Elder. Members : 
Mr. Chick and wife, Mrs. Smith and Mr. Hickman. The first regular 
preacher was Rev. Capell. In 1848 Rev. Leaper preached to them. 
This vear an effort was made to build a Republican (Union) meeting 
house, and failed. They then united with the School Trustees, and 
by taxation and subscription a frame house was built, to be used as 
school house and church for all denominations. In 1850 they built 
a house of worship. They now (1860) number 120 communicants, 
have a Sabbath school numbering 80 scholars, library, etc. Have 
services twice every Lord's day, Rev. Leftwich officiating. 

Baptist Church — ^Organized on 3d of September, 1855, in the 
Methodist Church. There were 10 members. The officers were T. 
M. James and Robt. Homes, Deacons, and Rev. R. S. Thomas (ex- 

*That would "be a hard corner to find ! The lot was on the north side of Third 
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President of William Jewell College), Pastor. He remained Pastor 
till his death, June 12, 1857. In 1857 forty-one persons were added 
on examination and nine by certificate. In 1859 Rev. E. S. Doulin 
was elected Pastor. There are now (1860) 112 communicants, 5 of 
whom are colored. Officers: James Homes, Lawrence Mors, R. 
Oarnett and R. H. Hooper, Deacons, and James Chandler, Clerk. 
Sabbath school 100. 

Presbyterian Church — Organized May 25, 1857; members, 13. 
There are now (1860) 63 members. Officers: C. M. Root, Wm. P. 
Allen, C. F. Smith, R. 0. Stephens, Elders, and J. C. McCoy, Samuel 
Piatt and T. B. Lester, M. D., Deacons, and R. S. Symington, 
Pastor. Sabbath school, 70 males, 65 females, 135. Teachers, 9. 
Books, maps, etc. R. C Stephens, Superintendent. Mission stations : 
McGee^s Addition, 4 o'clock, p. m. ; Mission Sabbath school, Bro. 
Seabury, Superintendent. Teachers 7, scholars 40 (average). 

Episcopal (St. Luke's) — Organized December 14, 1857, com- 
municants 5. Total in communion now (1860) 25. Sunday School, 
numbers of scholars 60, average 40. Books, etc. Rev. Joseph I. Corban, 
officiating. 

Reformed (Campbellites) — Organized August 1, 1858, in the 
Court House by Elder Palmer, 40 members. Dr. Ridge, W. Small 
and L. Bullard were elected Elders, .and John C. Coin, Speaker. Now 
number 80 members. Have speaking only once a month. 

M. E. Church, North — Organized Aug. 1, 1859, number com- 
municants 11. Rev. Mr. Pile, Minister. Number of communicants 
now, (I860) 23. 

A few Cumberland Presbyterians were worshipping in the 
northern part of Mc Gee's Addition, but they had not organized in 
1860. 

There were quite a number of Lutherans in the city, but they 
worshipped with us. 

Infidel clubs of all kinds were organized, but they were not 
noticed. 

These statistics I have copied from an old memorandum book, 
found in my library, and they can be relied on as correct. 

In 1862 [I860] my throat troubled me again, and my phvsician, 
Dr. Lester, advised me to rest for a year, and Rev. Hancock was 
invited to fill the pulpit. At the end of the year I was still unable 
to preach. I then removed to Pleasant Hill. 

In 1863 [Aug. 25], Order No. 11, was passed, depopulating the 
western border of Missouri, and Cass county was embraced in that 
order. Weary with the unsettled state of things in. Missouri, I 
determined to go east; and took the train [where?], Sept. 1st, for 
St. Louis. The brethren at Mexico, Mo., learned that I was on the 
cars, met me at the depot, and urged me to stop over with them, 
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the Pastor of the church and the Federal soldiers stationed there. 
He had been arrested and sent as a prisoner to St. Louis. The 
Session was unhappily divided between North and South, and neither 
part felt like moving in the matter. At their request, I stopped 
over, and they committed the whole matter to me. I immediately 
telegraphed to the President the exact state of the case, and asked for 
advice. Early the next morning the following statement came over 

the wires : "Col . Vacate the Presbyterian Church. Eeplace the 

furniture as it was, and protect the worshippers. A. Lincoln." A 
copy was sent to me, and to the Colonel commanding in the city. In 
a month everything was repaired, and we were worshipping in our 
house as before. I remained as Stated Supply with them four years. 
I organized a church at Montgomery City, and assisted in building 
a house of worship. 

Pleasant Hill had now grown to a city of G,000 inhabitants, and 
it was thought that two Presbyterian churches could be sustained 
there. My old friends gave me a call to the Second Presbyterian 
church. I accepted the call. We rented a hall, and worshipped in 
it until our church was built. While there I organized a church, and 
built a house of worship at Strasburg, on the Missouri Pacific Eail- 
road. I remained with these brethren seven years. 

On the last day of November, 1874, I took the west bound 
overland train for San Francisco, and preached my first sermon 
in California, Dec. 13, 1874. This severed my connection with the 
Synod of Missouri. * * God has been wonderfullv merciful in 
preserving my life. I am now nearly eighty-one years old, and I am 
still preaching and writing and lecturing and standing it well.* 



CHAELES LEMUEL THOMPSON. 

No living ex-member of Kansas City Presbytery is better known 
than the present Secretary of the Board of Home Missions. It is 
needless therefore to describe his character, ability or history. Aside 
from his prominence as Pastor of large churches in Chicago, Cin- 
cinnati, Pittsburg and Kansas City, he was already widely known 
as an editor, poet, essayist and lecturer before he was elected Moder- 
ator of the Centennial General Assembly in 1888. Though several 
ex-Moderators of the Assembly have honored this Presbytery with 

*A short obituary notice in the Interior tells of his death, March 24, 1901, and says : 
"Dr. Symington was a man of strong character, and was most earnestly devoted to the 
Master's cause. It was not his desire to occupy high places in noted churches; but he 
was eminently an organizer and builder, and the fields in which he labored evidenced 
his faithful work. The study of the word of God was his delight, and few men were better 
versed in the Bible than he; and this not to the exclusion of things secular altogether, for 
he was well informed upon all important topics of the-day, and was active in many public 
enterprises. As a preacher he was scholarly, logical and convincing. He preached 
nothing but Jesus Christ and Him crucified, and was never forced to choose a sen- 
sational subject to fill his church. The sincerity of his profession was never doubted, 
for he was a living epistle of the teachings of Christ, and his very presence was a bene- 
diction. Truly a mighty man has fallen in Israel." 



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their membership^ Dr. Thompson is the only one of our members 
honored by the Assembly with elevation to its highest office whik 
representing this Presbyterv. Many of his friends here have rather 
regretted the honor thus thrust upon him, as it was the first step that 
led to his call to labor outside of our bounds. 

In addition to his labors as Pastor of the Second church, Kan- 
sas City, during its most prosperous period. Dr. Thompson made his 
influence widely felt through the city. Presbytery and Synod. He 
established the Men^s League of the Second church by which all the 
younger organizations of our denomination in the city have been 
fostered and materially aided in securing their locations and houses 
of worship. He gave much attention to Park 'College and to the 
Kansas City Ladies'' College of Independence, of both which institu- 
tions he was a Trustee. 



ALEXANDER WALKER. 

As the Presbytery of Kansas City stood adjourned to meet in 
Rich Hill on the Tuesday afternoon following the Saturday on which 
the Rev. Alex. Walker died at his home in Butler, arrangements were 
made to have the funeral service held on Tuesday morning in 
Butler (12 miles north of Rich Hill). At that time nearly all the 
brethren of the Presbytery could be and were present. At the meet- 
ing of the Presbytery the following sketch prepared and read at the 
funeral service by the Rev. John B. Hill, was adopted as a memorial 
and spread on the records of the Presbytery. 

3^IEM0EIAL. 

The Rev. Alexander Walker was born in Kirkoswald, County Avr, 
Scotland, Feb. 27, 1840, and died in Butler, Mo., June 11, 1892". His 
bo3diood was spent in Scotland. At the age of eighteen he removed 
to Dudley, Worcestershire, England. In 1869 he came to this 
country for the sake of his health, and settled on a farm near Otter- 
ville. Mo., where he remained until he took charge of the church at 
Tipton, Mo. After a ten years' pastorate there, the longest in the 
history of this Presbytery, he removed to Butler, which continued 
to be his home until his death. 

Mr. Walker was married to Miss Agnes Hannah, in Newington 
Chapel, Liverpool, England, by the Rev. Henry Griffith, M. A., Feb. 
14, 1863. His wife, six sons (Alex., David, Daniel, Cyrus, Harry 
and John), and two daughters (Anna and Mary) survive him. Two 
other sons died in infancy. Alexander and David are married and 
in business, the one in Columbus, 0., the other in Wichita, Kan. 
The other members of the family reside in Butler, Mo. The only 
other relative in this country is his sister, the wife of Mr. Samuel 



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Strain, an Elder in the church at Bolivar, Mo. His mother, two 
brothers and three sisters still reside in their native land across 
the sea. 

At the age of fifteen Mr. Walker was converted and joined the 
Presbyterian church in his native town. On going to England, there 
being no Presbyterian church in the city of Dudley, he joined the 
Old Independent Church. After studying for the ministry under 
Dr. Daniel Kirby Shoebotham, he was licensed to preach by the 
Independent church. The vigor and enthusiasm with which he 
pursued his work soon made it necessary for him to seek rest and 
recuperation. He therefore came to this country, bought a farm, 
and settled down, expecting to remain in America only three years. 
Soon, however, he began to preach in the Otterville church, and at 
length, on the 23d of April, 1872, he was ordained by the Presbytery 
of Osage (now the Presbytery of Kansas City) in session at Pleasant 
Hill, Mo. On the 28th of Nov., following, he was installed Pastor 
of the church at Tipton. Upon the dissolution of that pastorate, 
Jan. 26, 1883, he accepted a call to the church at Butler, over which 
he was installed the 8th of April, following. In October, 1889, he 
was elected Synodical Missionary for Missouri, which office he filled 
until his death. 

Such is an outline biography of one of the best known Ministers 
of our State. His death was not unexpected, though many times 
during the ten weary weeks of his illness and pain, the watchers at 
his bedside and numerous inquiring friends throughout the State 
were encouraged by hopeful symptoms. An attack of la grippe dur- 
ing the winter was not enough to keep him from his usual labors. 
Impressed by the importance of his work, he continued, in spite of 
his weakness, until early in April he was so prostrated as to be con- 
fined to his bed. Even then he did not give up his work, but for 
weeks, by his own hand and by dictation to one of his sons, he con- 
tinued to carry on his extensive correspondence. His Scotch grit 
and splendid constitution enabled him to withstand for weeks a serious 
illness, with many painful complications that would much sooner 
have subdued the majoritv of men. His friends have good reason to 
think he died a martyr to the cause he loved so well — the work of 
Home Missions. 

Mr. Walker was an indefatigable worker, a good organizer, a 
splendid judge of men, a fearless, uncompromising advocate of truth 
and righteousness, and an ardent lover of the doctrine and polity of 
the Presbyterian Church. These qualities, together with his forceful, 
pointed expression, in public and in private, often with broad Scotch 
accent and wit, and his thoroughgoing good sense, decisiveness, 
promptness and frankness, combined to give him admirable fitness for 
the position he occupied as Synodical Missionary. Another large 
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Home Mission work. He himself had been a Home Missionary, whose 
labors were great and successful. For ten years before entering upon 
the Synodical work he had been, as Chairman of the Committee on 
Home Missions, thoroughlv familiar with every church in his Pres- 
bytery. With all these qualifications, no wonder the general verdict 
of the Synod was that he was the right man in the right place. Dr. 
D. J. McMillan, Secretary of the Board of Home Missions, wrote at 
once on hearing of his death : "Your telegram has thrown a cloud of 
gloom over our office, for we esteemed Mr. Walker most highly, as 
one of the ablest and most faithful of our Synodical Missionaries.'^ 
The death of Mr. Walker, cut off in his prime, is widely and 
sincerely mourned. Both the churches of which he was formerly 
Pastor are to-day, out of respect of his memory, draped in mourning. 
Of each church it is true, as one of his successors in the pastorate 
writes : "^All his good work follows him here in the hearts and high 
esteem of many." His twenty years' work in Kansas City Presbytery 
made him several years the senior of any of his brethren in respect 
to continuous service. Faithful in attendance at all ecclesiastical 
meetings, earnest and interested in all their deliberations, his wise 
counsel was not merely proffered but sought and respected. Truly 
in the death of such a man his Presbytery and Synod have sustained 
no ordinary loss. May the Lord of the Harvest raise up and send 
forth many^ such laborers into His field ! 



JOHN" LAPSLEY YANTIS. 

No sketch of Presbyterianism in Missouri, let alone in this 
Presbytery, would be complete without a notice of the labors of the 
Rev. J. L. Yantis, D. D., much more extensive than the average 
sketch of the Ministers of the Presbytery. Traditions of him and of 
his work remain in many of our churches and communities, though 
scarce a member of the Presbytery as at present constituted has any 
personal remembrance of him. A writer in Nevin's Encyclopaedia 
says of him: 

"Dr. Yantis's character was striking and unique. With an 
originality that is seldom found, he threw out his great thoughts that 
riveted the attention of the learned and the unlearned. He wrote 
some, read much and thought a great deal. His quickness of percep- 
tion enabled him to grasp and simplify the most difficult subjects. His 
manner of delivery was straightforward, bold, earnest and impressive. 
His frankness and honesty made him respected and honored by all 
good people. He abhorred all Vays that are dark and tricks that are 
vain.' He had no patience with deceit or vanity. He was gentle as 
a lamb, with the boldness and strength of a lion. While he left no 
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made a lasting impression upon thousands, and he was not only a 
pioneer, but one of the fathers of Presbyterianism in western Mis- 
souri/^ 

We are fortunate in being able to present also a sketch of him 
by one that was for many years a copresbyter with Dr. Yantis, and 
associated with him in the development of several of our present 
organizations. Writing under date of March 12, 1900, the Eev. E. 
S. Symington, D. D., of Danville, Cal., communicated the following: 

John Lapsley Yantis, D. D., was born in Lancaster, Garrard 
county, Ky., Sept. 14, 1804. He was the son of Col. John Yantis, 
who commanded a regiment of Kentuckians in the War of 1812, and 
was a leading man in his day. Aug. 21, 1828, at Stanford, Lincoln 
county, Ky., he was married to Miss Eliza Ann Markham Mont- 
gomery, daughter of Col. Jas. Montgomery. 

When about 20 years of age he began the study of medicine. 
When nearly ready to commence practice, he united with the church, 
and decided to study for the ministry. His health was so frail that 
he was unable to attend a Theological Seminary, and his preparation 
for the ministry was made under the instruction of his uncle, the Eev. 
Eobt. Armstrong Lapsley, D. D. He was licensed by Transylvania 
Presbytery, Ky., in April, 1829 ; and ordained in the autumn of 1830 
at Harrodsburg. He entered upon his first charge as Stated Supply for 
the churches of Lancaster and Stanford, one his own home, the 
other the home of his wife. He came to Missouri in the fall of 1833. 
He preached a short time in Saline county, and was called to the 
church of Liberty, Clay county, in the spring of 1834. In 1835 he 
preached as Stated Supply at Dover and other points in Lafayette 
county. Mo. In 1836 he went to Columbia and remained there about 
a year. In 1838 he returned to Clay county, where he remained 
one year. In 1839 he was called to Fulton, and was Pastor there for 
two years. In 1841 he removed to Lexington, and was Pastor of that 
church about seven years. For several, years he was Eegister of the 
. United States Land Office, then located in that place. In 1848 he 
purchased Sweet Springs, in Saline county, and established an 
Academy for boys, which he conducted for four years. 

In 1852 he,_ with quite a number of Presbyterians, crossed the 
Plains to Oregon, and located in the Willamette Valley. [While 
there] he was elected President of Eichmond College, (Mo.). He 
returned from Oregon to that place in 1855. While [President of 
the College], he received calls from Danville, Ky., Baltimore, Md., 
and San Francisco, Cal. He accepted the call from Danville, and 
remained there until the breaking. out of the Civil War in 1861. 
After that he returned to Sweet Springs, and I believe his family 
remained there' until his death, which occurred May 28, 1882. 

He never gave up preaching. He always said he would "die in 
the harness." His wife^s health was delicate, it was always better at 



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Sweet Springs. For this cause the family remained there, but he 
never gave up the active work of the ministry. After his return to 
Missouri, in 1861, he preached at Kansas City, Westport, Waver 1}^, 
Marshall, St. Joseph, Brownsville and Prairie churches. Wherever 
he preached, he was received with open arms and a hearty welcome. 
He was popular in all the churches. Sunday, May 28, he went to 
fill an appointment in Lafayette county. He held services at 11 
o'clock. At 3 o'clock he "was not, for God took him." He was 
buried in Pisgah Cemetery, near Elmwood, in Saline county. 

Dr. Yantis had six sons and two daughters. Three of his sons 
and one daughter are still living, and occupying important positions 
in the several states where they reside. 

Dr. Yantis in politics was a Whig and an Emancipationist. 
Though two of his sons served in the Southern Army, and he himself 
was a Southern sympathizer, from first to last he was opposed to 
secession. 

Dr. Yantis was born a leader. In all great enterprises he came 
to the front. Though he was in no sense a politician, yet he had 
a powerful influence with his part}^, and on all great movements he 
was consulted. Especially was this true in religious matters. He 
came to Missouri just at a time when a leader was greatly needed. 
N"umbers of families from Virginia and Kentucky were immigrating 
to that lovely land, and they needed an organizer. Many young 
Ministers were sent out by the Board of Home Missions, and they 
needed some one to introduce them to their several fields. He 
seemed to have an intuitive power of measuring a man as soon as 
he became acquainted with him, and seemed to know just where to 
locate him. 

He was thoroughly orthodox. Be was in Missouri when that 
unfortunate division into Old and New School occurred. Without 
hesitation he took position with the Old School, and carried the 
, churches of Upper Missouri with him. I remember but two churches 
in all that region that went with the New School. He signed the 
"Declaration and Testimony," and was sent to the General Assembly 
to present and defend it. He was called by some of the members 
"the old wheel horse." When that obnoxious order was issued called 
"the iron-clad oath," which forbade all Ministers preaching who had 
not taken that oath, he made his appointments and filled them as 
usual, without any regard to that order. He believed it interfered 
with the "crown rights of the Lord;" and he was fearless w^hen 
citizen or Government interfered with these. 

He was very pleasant in society, popular with young and old. 
He enjoyed a joke, and had a keen appreciation of ^the ridiculous. 
On one occasion, while on his way home from a preaching tour, he 
spent the night at Libert}^, Clay county. The host said to him: 
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I^m tired ; and besides you can't get an audience." An old Negro, 
who was standing at the door, waiting to shake his hand, said: "I 
gets yo' audience, ef dat's what you wants/' "All right; I'll give 
them a talk." The old Negro took a large hand bell, stood on the 
corner of the street, and rang awhile, and then cried : "Eare oppor- 
tunity, gemmen ! Eare opportunity ! Lecture in de Cote House, free ! 
Eare opportunity ! Dr. Yantis gwine ter talk, and you hnows him !" 
When Dr. Yantis entered "de Cote House," it was crowded. He 
took his text "Some said: And what will this babbler say?" (Acts 
17:17). He said he nevej pi5^hed with more freedom in his life. 

Above all he was eminent as a preacher. The moment he com- 
menced his subject, you felt he had a message to deliver; and you 
stayed with him until he delivered it. His style was vigorous, clear 
find tender. I have heard more eloquent discourses, more terse logic, 
more chaste language ; but no man ever moved me like Yantis. When 
he touched on the suffering of Christ, his eyes moistened, and his 
voice softened. Though every word of the story was familiar to you, 
you involuntarily wept with him. 

The Lord knows how to send the right man to the right place. 
That jsvas a grand country — it was filling up with grand men — and 
He sent a grand man to shape their moral destiny. He was as gentle 
as a lamb in peace, but fierce as a lion in war. 



JAMES YOUNG. 

The following notice, prepared by the Committee on Necrology, 
is extracted from the Minutes of Presbytery. 

"Eev. James Young died at his home, at High Point, Missouri, 
Oct. 27, 1897. At the time of his death he was the oldest member 
of the Presbytery of Kansas City.* He graduated from Wash- 
ington College in 1849, and Allegheny Theological Seminary in 
1852. He was ordained bv the Presbytery of Greenbrier, at Charles- 
ton, Va., April 22, 1854, and was installed in his first pastorate in the 
French Creek church, W. Va., June 10, 1856. He next served at 
Deep Cut, Anglaise county, 0., and later at Jefferson City, Linn 
Creek and High Point, Mo. 

"Mr. Young^s genealogv and life were closely linked to the 
great crises in the history of this country. His grandfather came 
from Ireland to America, and was Captain of Artillery, under Gen- 
eral Washington, throughout the Eevolutionary War. Mr. Young's 
father served in the War of 1812. During the late war he himself 
was instrumental in raising the 81st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and 
was appointed Chaplain of the same. He served throughout the war, 

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becoming at the close the Superintendent of a contraband camp con- 
taining three thousand colored people at Corinth, Miss. 

"In 1867 he moved to Missouri, locating at Jefferson City, and 
was there Pastor and close personal adviser of Governor McClurg, 
through the reconstruction period. He organized the church at 
High Point; and later, prevented by failing health from fulfilling an 
active ministry, he purchased considerable land at that place, and 
raised his family there, while he frequently preached in various 
churches, and received calls from eastern churches and elsewhere. 
During the last twenty years of his life his health was usually very 
poor. On the day of the announcement of his death, the Synod of 
Missouri and the Presbytery of Kansas City were in session, and 
both of these bodies adopted resolutions expressing their deep 
smypathy for the family in their bereavement.'^ 



SKETCHES OF CHURCHES* 



APPLETON CITY. 

December 28, 1867, pursuant to previous notice, seven individuals 
met at the home of S. S. Chapin, about a mile south of the village 
of Hudson, "to consult together in reference to the formation of a 
Presbyterian church in Hudson/' The following day, Sunday, Dec. 
29, services were held in a school house a mile and a half south of 
Hudson, the Eev. S. G. Clark preaching from Jn. 4:35. At the 
close of these services, the Presbyterian Church of Hudson, Bates 
county, Mo., was organized, with the following persons as members: 
E. S. Chapin, Mrs. Sarah Chapin, Miss Julia Field, H. H. Piepmeier, 
Mrs. A. E. Piepmeier, Mrs. Sally Ann Taylor, Mrs. Esther Long. 
After the organization was effected, the sacrament of the Lord'ss 
Supper was administered. 

In the spring of 1868, Mr. Clark removed with his family to 
Hudson, and took charge of the little flock. As soon as the weather 
would permit, services were held, both Sabbath school and preaching, 
in "God's first temples." By means of the earnest endeavors of Mr. 
Clark eastern friends became interested in the infant church, strug- 
gling in the wilderness, and gave so largely of their means that, with 
what could be raised in the immediate vicinity, a church building, 
35 by 50 feet in size, was enclosed the following summer. In the 
meantime new members were being added to the church mainly by 
letter. The church building was never finished at Hudson, however, 
for in less than a year tidings came that the proposed railroad site 
would be located four miles east of Hudson, in St. Clair county, 
making it advisable to remove most of the little village to the new 
site, and the church also. 

The first house in Appleton City was moved there Sept. 15, 1870. 
Six months from that time there were 141 houses and some ^00 peo- 
ple. The attempt to remove the church building to Appleton City 
was made late in the fall of 1870. It was thought best to saw the 
house in two, and remove half at a time. The first section, the part 
containing the belfry, was then loaded on trucks drawn by oxen, and 
taken about a quarter of a mile and left for the night. But, lo ! in 
the morning it had vanished in smoke, some miscreant having applied 
the torch. The half that reached the chosen site in the new town 
remained a gaping wreck, a reminder to passersby of the wickedness 
of mankind. Elder E. K. Gird wrote at that time : "This is a severe 
stroke. It falls heavily upon us, for we had put forth our energies 
to build, and were in debt considerably for it. The loss was felt 
severely by all the church-going people for quite a number of miles 
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ten miles of us. It shocks us to think we have in our community 
such a character, and there is no mistake about its being the work of 
an incendiary. We want to rebuild, and a meeting is called for 
this evening to see what can be done. * * The remaining part 
of our house is good, and can be moved over and put in the shape 
it was for about $1,500, so says our builder.'^ 

Some two months before the fire the Eev. S. Gr. Clark had passed 
on further to the frontier on his mission of church organization. 
He recommended the Rev. W. M. N"ewton, then a Pastor in Ohio, as 
his successor. On Thursday, May 11, 1871, Mr. Newton arrived. 
Very little had been done toward rebuilding before his arrival, but 
work then began immediately and the building was soon pushed to 
completion. The Methodists kindly tendered the use of their house 
while the Presbyterians were rebuilding. By the beginning of winter 
the church building was finished and out of debt. It was dedicated 
Dec. 3, 1871, by the Rev. J. T. Lapsley, of Pleasant Hill, who also 
assisted in conducting a series of meetings by which fifteen new mem- 
bers were added. Mr. Newton found the church with thirty mem- 
bers, and left it in 1875 with fifty-six. He was greatly beloved by 
all, as was also Mrs. Newton, an excellent worker, organizer and 
leader in missionary work of every kind. During this pastorate the 
manse was built. 

After a short interval the call of the church was accepted by 
the Rev. J. G. Venable, of Kentucky, who was forced to resign at the 
end of six months on account of failing health. After his resignation, 
the church was without regular preaching until Feb., 1878, when the 
Rev. R. H. J ackson became Pastor elect. He served the church faith- 
fully until April, 1883. In June, 1883, the Rev. A. B. Martin became 
Pastor Elect. He was installed Pastor, May, 1884, remaining until 
June, 1887. From Nov., 1888, to June 2, 1889, the Rev. Samuel A. 
Motfett supplied the church most acceptably; but the work in the 
foreign field attracted him, and he sailed for Korea to find there his 
chosen life work. From January, 1890, to June, 1891, the pulpit 
was filled by the Rev. Joseph Mayou; March 36, 1892, to May 18, 
1893, by the Rev. George B. Sproule; and Jan. 1, 1894, to March 1, 
1898, by the Rev. Edmund S. Brownlee, Pastor Elect. 

Hp to the close of Mr. Brownlee^s work there had been added to 
the church from the beginning 147 members on confession of faith 
and 154 by letter. Of these 18 had died, and 177 had been dismissed 
or had gone without taking letters. 

In the words of Elder Joel Pratt: "This history would not 
])e complete without adding that this church owes its existence 
and prosperity in a great degree to the earnest, consecrated efforts 
put forth by the Rev. S. G. Clark, who was sent as a missionary to 
Missouri before the smoke of the rebellion had fairly cleared away, 
and when the few inhabitants were miles apart on the prairies of 



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Bates and St. Clair counties. But with unwonted energy and a 
spirit born of God all difficulties were overcome, and a sturdy growth 
has marked its career from its early days until the present time. It 
is almost like a romance that the founder of this historic church, 
after years of absence on the frontier and other parts of Kansas and 
Missouri, came back to Appleton City, in May, 1898, and located 
in a pleasant cottage in an adjoining block to the church. On several 
occasions he filled the pulpit in the absence of the regular Pastor. 
Failing health prevented his always being present during the last 
weeks of his life; but on April 10, 1898, a new Pastor [the Eev. A. 
E. Van Orden] occupied the pulpit, and this aged man of God 
begged that he might once again attend divine service. Two gentle- 
men assisted him to church. All who clasped his hand that day felt 
that the end was near. Two weeks from that Sabbath his funeral 
sermon was preached by the Eev. J. F. Watkins, and all that 
remained of the Eev. S. G. Clark lay, covered with the fragrant 
spring flowers he loved, before the altar he had been instrumental 
in building. His memory is dear to all ; may his earnest words and 
consecrated life be emulated by all.^^ 

The same Elder writes : "A tribute to the memory of Mary 
Jackson, beloved wife of the Eev. E. H. Jackson, for six years 
Pastor of this charge. Mrs. Jackson was a rare woman, having had 
educational advantages and experience in all grades of schools, both 
as teacher and President. She was a gifted talker and able writer. 
In her death the friends of missions lost a loyal coworker, who was 
always devoted to every good work. It is a tender and tearful tribute 
that we pay to her memory. Her death occurred several years ago, 
shortly after removing to the state of Arkansas.'^ 

AEEOW EOCK. 
A small church in Saline coimty, organized in 1840 by Wm. 
Dickson, G. M. Crawford and B. W. Eeynolds. Its Presbyterial con- 
nection has been with the Presbyteries of Missouri, Upper Missouri 
and Lafayette. 

AULLVILLE. 

September 13, 1872, the Eev. J. H. Byers reported to Presbytery 
that he had organized a church at Aullville, consisting of ten mem- 
bers, with Dr. E. A. Taylor and James E. McClure as Elders. The 
organization took place in August preceding. Occasional supplies 
were sent to this church by Presbytery but it soon disappeared. Its 
name was stricken from the roll April 14, 1877. 

AUSTIlSr. 

This church is one of those organized by the indefatigable Seth 
G. Clark. At the time of its organization, the town expected a rapid 
growth, which unfortunately never came. The expected railroad was 



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not built; and when at last another was built, it left the town some 
miles away. Still the little church kept up an existence for twenty 
years. It was organized with 8 members, Feb. 16, 1868. It was 
supplied for a few months by Mr. Clark; then by Josiah J. Brown, 
'68; and Philander Eead, '69-73, In Mr. Eead's time it became 
grouped with the Wadesburg (Creighton) church, which grouping it 
retained through the rest of its existence. It was finally stricken from 
the roll April 11, 1888. 

BELMONT. 

See Windsor. 

BELTOK 

June 25, 1882, a church was organized at Belton by the Eev. 
A. T. Eobertson with 16 original members. Mr. Eobertson preached 
for them for a time, in the Baptists' house of worship. The church 
never succeeded in getting a building of its own, though at one time 
there was a proposition in Presbytery to sell the house of the Bethel 
Church, which was not then in use, and devote the proceeds to the 
Belton Church. September 11, 1884, the Belton Church was dis- 
solved. 

BETHEL. 

This church was organized in August, 1869, by the Eev. Wm. L. 
Breckenridge, D. D., LL. D., who was then living on his farm in 
Eaymore Township, some four miles north of Peculiar. It was sup- 
plied for about three years by Dr. Breckenridge; afterwards irregu- 
larly by Dr. George Miller, J. J. Hawk, J. W. Talbot, J. B. Vawter, 
L. F. Dudley and others. Dr. Miller once wrote of it : "It promised 
well, bought a good church house; but the panic of '73 brought 
financial embarrassment upon its members, and consequent removals 
finished its short life." No other church ever remained so long, how- 
ever, on the roll of Presbytery after it was virtually extinct. Several 
committees of Presbytery were sent to visit it and try to revive it, 
special series of meetings were recommended and perhaps held ; but all 
to no avail. Its house was large and well built, but after the rail- 
road was built and the town removed to the present site of Peculiar, 
it was impossible to get either any audience to fill the house or a 
nucleus about which to gather a new organization. There were offers 
by other denominations who wished to use or remove the building, 
but zealous members of Presbytery refused them, saying: "The 
Presbyterian Church is building churches, not selling them." Thus 
the church was retained on the roll, starred, for many years, until 
in the summer of 1896, the Board of Church Erection, which had 
made a grant of $500 on the property, was glad to sell the dilapi- 
dated building with the ground for $75 ! What might have brought 
several hundred dollars above the Board's grant, if an early offer had 
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to go to ruin. Would that this were a solitary case ! The name of 
the Bethel Church was finally stricken from the roll September 23, 
1896. 

BOONYILLE. 

The eighth Presbyterian church organized in the State of Mib- 
souri, and oldest in the territory now contained in the Presbytery of 
Kansas City, is that of Boonville, though for some years after its 
organization it was located at Old Franklin, on the north side of the 
Missouri Eiver. From the History of Cooper County (1876, p. 41) 
we learn that "The town of Old Franklin was laid off opposite the 
present site of Boonville during the year 1816. It_was located on 
fifty acres of land donated by different individuals for the purpose. 
It grew rapidly, soon became very populous, and commanded a wide 
trade. It was for a time the largest and most flourishing toMm in 
the State, west of St. Louis, and the starting point for all the Santa 
Fe traders. But in the year 1826 the waters of the turbulent Mis- 
souri commenced encroaching upon this beautiful and populous city, 
and, despite the utmost endeavors of its citizens, house after house 
was swept away, until in a few years afterwards the current of the 
river rolled through her streets, and the whole city was engulfed in 
its hungry waters. Within the last few years a small village, still 
called Old Franklin, has sprung up just back of the site of the old 
town, but not a single house, or any other mark remains to suggest to 
the traveler that he stands near the site of a once large city." 

In January, 1821, the Board of Missions seems to have given 
attention to Missouri as the Eev. Francis McFarland in company 
with the Eev. Edward Hollister came to Missouri, and went into 
what was called the Boon^s Lick country, going up as far as the 
Chariton Eiver. On April 28, 1821, Mr. Hollister organized a 
church of 23 members in Franklin. He was succeeded for a short 
time each by the Eevs. Thos. (John?) Alexander and Alex. McFar- 
land, of Virginia. In Januar3_^ 1826, the Eev. Augustus Pomeroy, a 
missionary of the United Domestic Missionary Society, arrived in St. 
Louis and went thence to take charge of the church at Franklin. 
March 15, 1826, he wrote: "The situation of the little church here 
affected me much. I could find no one to tell me of how many it 
consisted, and for two years the sacrament had not been administered. 
* * I am not only alone, but nearly 150 miles from any of my brethren 
in the ministrv." He remained only about two years, during which 
time he preached regularly in both Franklin and Boonville and taught 
school in Franklin. One or two of his successors also taught a part 
of the time. For a short time in 1827 the Eev. W. P. Cochran 
preached there. 

From 1828 to 1834 the pulpit was supplied by the Eev. Hiram 
Chamberlain, who came to Missouri in 1826 as a missionary of the 



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United Domestic Missionary Society. After abont a year's absence 
in the east, lie returned to Missouri in October, 1828. In coming he 
spent 52 days on the way from Dorset, Yt., to St. Louis, traveling 
1,500 miles on horseback, preaching every Sabbath and often during 
the week. February 1, 1829, he wrote: "Franklin is now an out- 
post in relation to the line which fixes the present boundaries of the 
Presbyterian Church. But far beyond this the dark forests which 
shade the Missouri on the north are yielding to the hand of the culti- 
vator, and the jich prairies on the south — rich beyond description — 
are becoming fruitful fields. The wave of emigration is not yet 
stayed. It has not reached its ultimatum. Its force is undiminished, 
and it remains to be determined how much farther our exertions 
must be extended to meet the spiritual exigencies of men whose 
minds are sometimes darker than the forests which they penetrate. 
As yet over these extensive regions the pathway of a Presbyterian 
minister is not known. ISTot so with the private members of our 
Church. So far as our researches have extended, we find them scat- 
tered as sheep in the wilderness. They have doubtless gone to the 
farthest limits of civilization. Your missionaries are continually 
making such exertions as their engagements will permit, and they 
seldom return without discovering some communicant before 
unknown. When we have traveled from 60 to 80 miles for the pur- 
pose of preaching to a small audience, gathered in a little cabin, our 
toil is often repaid by the cheering and hearty welcome of some 
veteran of the cross whose remote situation has deprived him of 
church privileges.'' During Mr. Chamberlain's ministry the organiza- 
tion was moved from Franklin to Boonville, in 1830. In 1832 a 
church huilding was decided on, though it was not completed until 
1841, at a cost of $4,500. 

During the next six years the church was without a regular 
Minister, and from 1836 to 1838 it was without Elders, until visited 
by the Eev. E. L. McAfee, who ordained two. On May 24, 1840, the 
Presbytery of Missouri ordained the Eev. Wm. G-. Bell, and installed 
him over the Boonville church. He remained Pastor until October, 
1854. He preached the first and the last sermon in the old church 
building. He was succeeded by the Eev. H. M. Painter, 1854-62; and 
by the Eev. James Morton, 1863-6. About that time the church 
joined the Declaration and Testimony party, which ultimately took 
it into its present connection in the Southern Church. 

BEOWlSrmGTOK 

The Brownington Church is one of several organized and 
ministered to by the Eev. I. iN". Galbreth. He labored for some years in 
Vernon and adjacent counties in the interests of that portion of the 
Presbytery of Lafayette that signed the Declaration and Testimony. 



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This church began August 17, 1870, with but one male and two 
female members. Its growth was slow. Before coming to the Pres- 
bytery of Osage, its Ministers were the Revs. R. S. Symington and 
J. F. Watkins. On Sept. 9, 1874, both Minister and church were 
received into our connection. The record in the Presbytery's Minutes 
reads : "A paper was presented to Presbytery by Rev. S. F. Watkins 
relating to the churches of Fairview and Brownington. Fairview 
church in our Presbytery and Brownington church in the Pres- 
bytery of Lafayette, 0. S. Synod of Missouri, have combined and 
formed the church of Brownington in our Presbytery. The church of 
Fairview was dropped from the roll of churches, and Brownington 
was enrolled.'' It was later supplied for one year each by Wm. M. 
Reed and by S. W. Mitchell, under the latter of whom a house of wor- 
ship was built. The Rev. J. F. Watkins returned to its pulpit in 
1879, remaining seven and a half years as Pastor of the churches of 
Osceola and Brownington. Thereafter it was supplied for short 
periods by several ministers residing at Osceola and by theological 
students during their summer vacations. Its only Minister who 
remained longer than a few months was the Rev. G. B. Sproule, who 
was its Stated Supply, in connection with the church at Deepwater, 
for three and half years. Since December, 1898, it has been similarly 
grouped under the ministration of the Rev. W. F. Van der Lippe. 

BUTLER. 

The First Presbyterian Church of Butler was organized March 
31, 1867. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the organization, letters 
were read from former Ministers and others, which contain so much 
information and interesting historical material that extensive quota- 
tions from them appear below. The most interesting, that by the 
Rev. S. G. Clark, is given entire, as follows: 

MISSION V^OEK IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. 

"The second day of January, 1866, I left my home in Milan, 
Ohio, where my family had resided during the war, to go to south- 
west Missouri, as a Home Missionary. Dr. Kendall [Secretary of the 
Board of Home Missions] was very anxious I should go to that 
particular field because in all southwest Missouri, we, then N. S. 
Presbyterians, had only two Ministers, and it required three to form 
a Presbytery. The two Ministers were Timothy Hill, who had come 
to Kansas City a few weeks before me, and John M. Brown, whose 
headquarters were at Osceola, and who, like all the missionaries who 
followed us for several years, was ^settled on horesback.' Southwest 
Missouri had been literally burned over by the war. A great part of 
this had been done by each army, as they alternately had possession 
of it, but most of it was done by prairie; fires, as they swept over the 



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country when the inhabitants were ordered to leave their homes and 
go to the larger towns, where they conld be protected. Butler, I 
have been told, was burned by Union soldiers, and so thoroughly 
done that but two roofs remained standing. They were of so little 
account that it was not worth while to cross the street to put a torch 
into them, or they too would have been burned. The streets literally 
grew up to weeds, i^ine out of every ten farm houses and buildings 
were burned, and at least three-quarters of the people had left. In 
1866 a few were returning, and more Avere coming in from the north 
and east, and some from Kentucky and Tennessee. 

"A young man from the 10th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, who left 
the regiment before the close of the war, came to southwest Missouri 
as soon as the war closed. On his return to Ohio he gave me a full 
description of the situation. We formed a small colony to come and 
locate in Cass county, where good land could be obtained for $5 an 
acre. The colony was finally, located at Greenwood, but Erank Brooks 
and I came directly to Harrisonville, he to attend to the location of 
the colony, and I to preach the Gospel, wherever and whenever I 
could find hearers. 

"We arrived in Harrisonville at noon on Saturday before the 
first Sabbath in Januarv. School houses and churches were so torn 
up by the Avar that they could not be used. No effort had been made 
to haA^e religious services of any kind, except a little Sabbath school 
had been started two or three Sabbaths before. This was held in a 
little dingy room upstairs, with nearly half the glass out of the 
Avindows, and the walls covered all over with soldiers' names and 
comic pictures. If I had not been a soldier and learned what soldiers 
would do, I could not have kept my face straight as I entered that 
room to attend Sabbath school. I gave out an appointment to preach 
at 3 p. m., because there was no arrangement for lighting the room in 
the evening. We had about 25 the first service; but congregations 
increased, and the only thing that seemed encouraging was the fact 
that people would fill any place that could be found to hold meetings. 
There were tAvo school houses in the center of the prairies, unburned. 
Although not a house could be seen from the school house, yet let 
an appointment be made for any hour on the Sabbath or on a Aveek- 
day evening, and the house would be full. 

"The Board by my request made full provision for my salary the 
first year. I told them, if I went to such a burned-over country, I did 
not want to intimate to auA^ man, woman or child that a missionary 
needed anything to eat, drink or wear. I did not say money for a 
year, except when I paid my bills. The people were just as modest 
as I was, and never said money to me ! I obtained a hardy Mustang 
pony, and went in all directions, preaching the Gospel Avherever I 
found an opening. Harrisonville, Greenwood, Lee's Summit, Holden, 
Hudson, Austin and finally Butler were taken into the circuit. 



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"A Rev. Mr. North, who had been a foreign missionary, had 
preached one or two Sabbaths in Butler, by request of the Rev. 
Timothy Hill. But for some reason he did not stay, and Bro. Hill 
wrote me to visit the place and see what the outlook seemed to be. 1 
think I preached there the second Sabbath in January, 1867, for the 
first time, and in February. From that time on I had an appoint- 
ment regularly once a month. There were about 100 people in town 
and nearby, when I first went there ; and people were beginning slowly 
to come in. There was a small, cheap, cold school house, a little 
southeast of where the church now stands, and that was i!;;' 
place that could then be obtained. The Sabbath school filled it, and 
the congregation filled it. I remember to have once urged the 
children to canvass for more scholars, and told them I hoped they 
would obtain enough to split the school house open, so as to make 
it necessary for the people to provide a better place. 

"At length we used unfinished buildings and then a hall, but we 
found that we must build. But I am getting ahead of my story. 
Three Presbyterians were found, and we thought more would join us. 
But on the appointed time there were only the three, two females 
whose husbands were not pious, and an unmarried young man. Not 
a very bright prospect ! But we all thought best to make a beginning, 
if it was small. Saturday was quite pleasant, though the mud was 
as deep as it ever gets in Missouri. In the night there came up a 
snow storm from the northeast, and the snow by church time was 
six or eight inches deep. There were not over ten or twelve persons in 
the house, but the appointment was out, the sermon was preached, 
the Elder elected unanimously, ordained and installed, and the First 
Presbyterian Church in Butler had an existence. The sacrament of 
the Lord^s Supper was administered. There were five besides the 
Minister who partook of the elements, our little three, and two of our 
M. E. brethren, five in all and a congregation of from ten to twelve. 

"There was no church edifice in the count}^, and it was evident 
that we must soon build. We began the necessary amount of talk at 
once ; but there was no meeting, I think, to appoint a Building Com- 
mittee until the autumn of 1868. The object was to form the plan 
and draw the material during the winter, as all the lumber must 
come from Pleasant Hill. I only remember two of the commnttee, 
Capt. E. P. Henry and J. C. McKibben. The name of Capt. Henry 
deserves a special mention in regard to our church edifice. He 
was deeply interested in it, and having no family, fortunate in 
having a few thousand dollars he could command, and more fortunate 
in having a heart for the work, he determined to build a better house 
than we at first thought possible. The Presbvterian and M. E. 
churches had a conference on the subject, and proposed that the M. 
E. church should build and we would help them, or we would build 
and they help ns; then to use the church in partnership until the 
other church should build; and then that the church who had the 



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house pay back to the other what they had put in the first building. 
The result was the Presbyterian Church built, and the M. E. church 
put in $350. When the M. E. church built, our church paid back the 
amount received and added $100. Here let me say the churches 
worked in perfect harmony, and, so far as I have ever heard, con- 
tinue to do so. 

"Capt. Henry obtained everything at the lowest cash price. 
When all was completed, and he had paid out $4,315.75, the church 
from all sources had paid him $1,700.^ ^'Now/ he said, ^pay the 
balance when you can.' They continued to pay, as they could raise 
the money, till the debt was reduced down to $1,000. Then he said, 
^You may stop. I want $1,000 of stock in that building.' And 
since he has gone to that Better Land, I will say: I never met a 
truer friend or a nobler Christian man. A few years after this, when 
I was east raising funds for Highland University, I was often asked : 
^Do your churches west do all they can to help themselves?' Of 
course I was obliged to say ^No.' I never saw a church, east or 
west, where all the members did all they could. I would then tell 
what Capt. Henry had done, and then tell them, if they had any 
nobler men, I would like to look into their faces. 

"As soon as the house was up and had a roof and a floor, we 
began to use it. We had a Union Sabbath school. At length, one 
denomination and then another drew off, and organized a school of 
their own, till we had three schools. This troubled me at first, but, 
in a little generous rivalry, they literally gathered in all the children 
and youth. I made a little speech to our school one day, offering 
a book worth a dollar to the child who would obtain the largest 
number not attending anv school in a month. When I closed, Mr. 
Hartwell, the Superintendent, said to me: don't know where 
they will find the children. I don't know a child or a young person 
that does not attend one of the Sabbath schools.' But I must not 
forget to say that the Sabbath school paid $50. It built the pulpit 
and paid for the Bible. When they began to raise money, I agreed 
to give, or get another Sunday school to give, as much as they. A 
Sabbath school from abroad had promised me help, but finally left me 
to pay the $50. But I have always regarded it as a good investment. 

"The day when the church was organized was very stormy. It 
snowed all day. The dav when the house was dedicated was just as 
stormy but now it was rain. But Bro. T. Hill had come from Kansas 
City by buggy, and could not come again. So we dedicated the house 
with not more than a quarter of the church present.^ 

"I preached for the church, I think, about three years. I can- 
not remember a single unpleasant occurrence with any member of 
the church or congregation. The young people attended well, and 

1. $800 from the Board of Church Erection. 

2. Dr. Hill was aceompanied on that trip by his little son, John B., who well remem- 
bers the occasion, but little thought then that he would ever become pastor in the house 
then dedicated. 



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several young lawyers were attentive hearers. Ir most congregations 
there are a few who are always ready to change ministers, but Butler 
seemed satisfied not to change. But I had spread myself so thin, 
over so large a field, that I must give up Butler or several of ni}' 
smaller churches, where no one would go. Butler was a desirable 
field for any earnest worker, and so I must and did give it up. I 
found when my work was over that I had traveled 2,500 miles, almost 
all of it on horseback, to preach to them what amounted to about one 
and a half years' preaching. 

"It was a great pleasure to me to have Mrs. F. A. Austin come 
to Butler, and make her home with us, not only because she was a 
faithful Christian worker and efficient Bible class teacher, but also 
because it brought out her father, the Eev. E. Conger, and her 
mother, to spend a winter with them. The old gentleman had bap- 
tized me in Ohio, when a mere youth. I had often heard him preach ; 
and he was the first one to ask me if I would not like to get an 
education and preach the Gospel. You can hardly realize how strange 
it seemed to me to preach to one to whom I had so often listened with 
so much interest. 

"I must not fail to say that the Bible that the children bought 
for the Butler church I afterwards used in Rich Hill and Rockville, 
and then brought it to Kansas, and used it in several churches here. 
Now it is the property of a little church I organized about five years 
since in Hugoton, the county seat of Stevens County, where five 
men have been murdered in county seat fights. But I am happy to 
say none of my church members were in the quarrel. 

"I am now almost 75 years old, and have preached almost 46 
years. I never cease to rejoice that God has granted me the privilege 
of preaching his glorious Gospel. Excuse the length of this, for I 
have not had time to make it shorter. * * 

^TTours fraternally, 

"S. G. Clark.^^ 

To the foregoing letter it is necessary to add only that during 
the three years' ministry of Mr. Clark there were added to the Butler 
church 32 persons by letter and 14 on profession of faith — surely a 
good record for "quarter time.'' 

The next minister was the Rev. G. W. Macmillan, who came 
in May, 1870, and remained two years. He preached three Sabbaths 
a month in Butler and one in a school house near where the Lone 
Oak church is now. The Methodists preached in Butler the Sabbath 
he was away. The Session when he came consisted of Judge David 
McGaughey and A. D. Taylor. During his ministry Capt. E. P. 
Henry and John C. McKibben were ordained Elders. The town 
rapidly improved, doubling in population while Mr. Macmillan was 
there, building the Court House, the first graded school, and the M. 
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town. In the two years 26 were added by letter and 7 on profession. 

September 15, 1873, the Eev. Edward W. P. Wyatt, a brother of 
Hiram Wyatt, who was later elected Elder, began a short but fruitful 
ministry, lasting^. only till the following March, when he was com- 
pelled to ^ive up on account of failing health. A few weeks after 
he died of consumption. While he was in charge 17 were added on 
profession and one by letter. 

June 1, 1874, the Rev. Elgy V. Campbell began as Stated Supply, 
remaining until Thanksgiving Day of the following year, when he 
accepted a call to the field he had left in Minnesota, where he re- 
mained many years. His ministry resulted in 5 additions on pro- 
fession and 3 by letter. He also began a private school, out of 
which grew the Butler Academy. He left only pleasant memories of 
his stay in Butler, and himself looked back on all his experiences 
there with pleasure, "grasshoppers excepted.^^ 

The first Pastor installed over the church was the Rev. W. M. 
Newton, who began his work January 1, 1876, and remained seven 
years. He was installed April 10, 1878, and released December 15, 
1882. While he was there 90 members were added on profession and 
55 by letter. Of this work there, Mr. Newton wrote at the time of 
the 25th anniversary: 

"At my coming to Butler the church cut loose , from the Board, 
and became self-supporting. I took charge of the church as Stated 
Supply for whatever salary they might be able to raise. The first 
year the salary was a little short. The next year I was called as 
Pastor, and there was never any trouble about salary or support while 
I stayed. In this respect the Butler church was always prompt and 
liberal [a testimony borne by all the ministers it ever had]. My pas- 
torate in Butler was one of the most prosperous periods in my min- 
istry. When I began the work, the church numbered about 56 mem- 
bers; when I resigned, it numbered about 160. There were additions 
to the church at almost every communion. There were several sea- 
sons of revival, the principal of which was in the winter of 1878, 
when the Evangelist, Bro. H. F. Williams, and his wife were with us. 
Fortv-nine united with the church that year — 38 upon profession 
of their faith in Christ. The growth of the church during the 
period is not at all to be set down to my credit. Humanly speaking, 
it is largely to be accounted for by the fact that the town was grow- 
ing. While I was in Butler, the railroad was built, and the town was 
more than doubled in population. 

"No part of my work in B. do I remember with more satisfac- 
tion than the organization of the Ladies' Missionary Society. A 
Ladies' M. S. was a new thing at that time. There were some doubts 
as to its propriet}^, and many forebodings that it would be short lived. 
I remember that I gave the ladies a great deal of advice, which they 
seemed to take very meekly. I was anxious that the Society would 
be a success, and I have not been disappointed.'^ 



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Mr. Newton pays this tribute to the memory of Elder A. D. 
Taylor : "There was Father Taylor, a man who had convictions and 
was not afraid to live up to them. I recall an incident which illus- 
trates the character of the man. We had taken up a collection for 
Foreign Missions. There was found in the collection basket a wad of 
bills, amounting to $15. Such a find in your collection basket may 
be a common occurrence now, but it was a phenomenon unheard of 
then. ^Surely,^ we thought, ^there is some mistake. Somebody has 
put in the wrong roll of bills.' But what could we do about it? If 
^somebody had blundered,' it was not ours to 'ask the reason why.' 
So we sent on the money. But after a while it was found out that 
Father Taylor had put in the $15. And he had made no mistake 
about it. He had merely paid the Lord His tithe, and $15 was the 
proportion which fell to Foreign Missions. Almost the last distinct 
remembrance I have of Father Taylor was one September morning 
in Colorado. He had taken me out for a ride. We drove up a long 
hill towards the East. Then, suddenly turning his buggy around, 
there right before us, against the blue sky, wrapped in its mantle 
of newly fallen snow, stood Pike's Peak. Scarcely speaking a word, 
we sat and gazed upon that scene of indescribable sublimity — fitting 
emblem of the Great White Throne before which Father Taylor soon 
after stood to render his account and receive his reward.'^ 

Of Elder Stobie, Mr. Newton wrote : "Like all who are great in 
the Kingdom of Heaven, he was a man of childlike simplicity and 
faith. He was not conspicuous in worldly circles, but what a power 
he was in the prayer meeting." Like Mr. Clark, Mr. Newton speaks 
highly of Elder E. P. Henry: "Capt. Henry was one of those rare 
men who, with the strength and courage and conscientiousness of 
an ideal man, combine the tact and tenderness of a woman. I never 
think that he has passed away from earth without a sense of personal 
bereavement." 

Surely a church blessed with such Elders, and Butler has had 
several such, is blessed above the average. In how many of our 
churches a weak eldership is the secret of their failure. 

Immediately after the resignation of Mr. Newton, the church ex- 
tended a call to the Rev. Alexander Walker, who came in January, 
1883, and was installed April 8 following and remained until elected 
Synodical Missionary in October, 1889. He received into the church 
48 members on profession and 46 by letter. After his resignation, the 
pulpit was not regularly supplied for over a year, when the Rev. John 
B. Hill was called as Stated Supply. He began his work November 
23, 1890, and remained four years, being installed Pastor from 
January 21, 1892 to November 20, 1894. In that time there were 
46 members received on profession and 37 by letter. The Rev. J. F. 
Watkins served as Pastor Elect for two years from April 1, 1895, re- 



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ceiving members on profession and by letter. The present Pastor, the 
Rev. Stanley D. Jewell, began in December, 1897, and was installed 
May 5, 1898. 

The Butler church can claim a special motherly interest in at 
least three ministers: Charles A. and Samuel E. Taylor, sons of 
Elder A. D. Taylor, and Edwin M. Martin, son of Prof. J. M. C. 
Martin of Butler Academy, who was long the Superintendent of the 
Sabbath School. The Rev. C W. Marshall, Missionary in China, was 
also a member of the congregation for some time, while attending 
Butler Academy. 

The church is thoroughly and efheiently organized, having a good 
Sabbath school. Senior and Junior Endeavor Societies, and a small, 
but vigorous Woman's Missionary Society, which is one of the most 
energetic in the Presbytery. No notice of the Butler church would 
be complete without mention of it. For some years its President was 
Mrs. Mary A. Fulton, widow of the late Rev. W. R. Fulton, with 
whom she shared many years of missionary labor in this State. To 
her, as also to Mrs. Prof. Martin, much credit is due for the Mission- 
ary spirit seen in the church. Both have now gone home to their 
Savior, but the work they loved is carried on by other loving hearts 
and willing hands. The Session is at present composed of six life 
members, most of whom have been in office for many years. 

CALIFORNIA. 

About 1870 a church of eight members was organized at Cull- 
fornia by a Committee of Presbjrtery composed of A. J. Johnson 
and James Young and Elder J. D. Strain. It seems never to have 
been regularly supplied with preaching (except for a few months hy 
Mr. Young)^, to have built no house, and soon to have given pkce to 
the present organization in connection with the Southern church. It 
remained on the roll of Presbytery only from April 6, 1870, to April 
16, 1875. 

CENTERYIEW. 

While the Rev. W. H. Hillis was preaching in Warrensburg, he 
gathered a congregation at Centerview also, six miles west. February 
8, 1874, the new cpngregation was organized into a church by Sjoiodi- 
cal Missionary J. W. Allen. It began with 28 members, who in the 
course of about a year had increased to 68, largely by profession. Mr. 
Hillis continued to supply them on Sunday afternoons for about two 
years, after which they were served by the Rev. James S. Poage, as 
Stated Supply for eleven years. In 1879 Centerview was among the 
only six churches in the entire Presbytery reported as self-supporting. 
In the spring of 1881 the Home Mission Committee reported : "Cen- 
terview has seemed to recede from self-support; but this is explained 
by the fact that they are straining themselves to build a suitable 



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church home." They obtained a good frame house of worship, at a 
cost of $1,600. The church has not since reached self-support, nor 
has it enjoyed the full time of its Minister. Its only resident Min- 
isters have been J. S. Poage, A. E. Yanorden and H. C. White. 

Years ago there was also a United Presbyterian church in Cen- 
terview, of which the Rev. Josiah Thompson, now a member of this 
Presbytery, was Pastor from 1867-73. After an absence of four years 
in Pennsylvania, Dr. Thompson returned and has since made Center" 
view his home. 

CLINTON. 

Prom a sketch furnished by Elder J. C. MiddelcoS, it appears 
that the First Presbyterian Church of Clinton was organized in 
June, 1858, by the Eev. David Coulter, the Committee appointed by 
the Presbytery of Lafayette. The petition for organization was signed 
by six men and eight women. Two Ruling Elders were ordained 
and installed. "This church was founded at the time when the 
Church was divided doctrinally into New School and Old School, and 
by its records shows that it was emphatically of the Old School 
branch." Its principal Supply before the Civil War was the Eev. R. 
S. Reese, who preached there monthly until the war came on. During 
that struggle there were no services held. Mr. Reese again supplied 
the pulpit from 1868 to 1870. 

During the period of suspended animation of the original or- 
ganization, a new First Presbyterian Church of Clinton was organized 
by the Rev. J. M. Brown, the organizer for the New School Church 
in the southern part of the Presbytery of Osage. The petition for 
this organization is a model of its kind : "We, the undersigned resi- 
dents of Clinton and its vicinity, believing that the interests of 
Christ's Kingdom and our own spiritual welfare would be pro- 
moted by the organization of a Presbyterian church in this place, 
do hereby request the Rev. J. M. Brown to meet us on the 18th day 
of February, 1866, at 2 o'clock p. m., and organize us into such 
church." It is signed by seven persons, three of them men. The 
organization was effected as requested, Mr. James A. de la Yergne, 
formerly an Elder in Aurora, Ind., being elected and installed as 
Ruling Elder. 

For the first few years the church was only irregularly supplied 
with preaching, mainly bv Synodical Missionary Norton, Elder de 
la Yergne and Ministers Conant and S. G-. Clark. Its first Stated 
Supply was the Rev. J. J. Brown, who remained but one year, fol' 
lowed by the Rev. J. B. Allen for three years. The first Pastoi- 
was the Rev. Reuel Dodd, who remained four years. During Mr. 
Dodd's pastorate, the Old School organization, then identified with 
that portion of the Presbytery of Lafayette that signed the Declara- 
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membership (with one exception) having been received. On April 4, 
1875, the Session of the church passed the follov/ing resolution "That 
this proposition to unite with us as a church be cordially received 
and accepted; and moreover that it is recommended that this sister 
church be publicly welcomed to an organic union with us on the 
following Sabbath, by a rising vote of our own church membership.-" 
The union of the two churches then consummated has been a real 
union ever since. 

The original building of the church was erected about 1870 
at a cost of about $2,500, of which $600 came from the Board of 
the Church Erection Fund, and $130 from friends in Indiana, a 
mortgage of $730 being given the Board. This building and its 
ground were sold in 1882 and the present lots purchased and build- 
ing erected at a cost of about $5,000, all raised at home, except $200 
from the Board of Church Erection. Since then the interior of the 
church has been remodeled and a manse erected on an adjoining 
lot. 

COLD NECK. 

Possibly should be Cole Neck. The name appears in certain 
early lists of churches in this region. No facts concerning its his- 
tory have been discovered. Pettis County. 

CONCOED. 

Name changed to Salt Springs. 

CREIGIHTON. 

After the reorganization of the Presbytery of Lafayette at the 
close of the war, the first church it organized was that which is now 
known as Creighton. It has had three different names in its history, 
besides being frequently referred to as the Wadesburg church and the 
Grant church. No other organization has had so many names. Dr. 
G-eorge Miller says (Missouri's Memorable Decade, p. 141) : "We 
held a few days' meeting at Mrs. Morrow's, and organized the church 
in her log house, that stood on the farm when she bought it a year 
before." 

A sketch of the history of the church, furnished by Elder Hughes 
in 1898, says: "The following is a copy of the first record of the 
Minutes of Session, dated November 10, 1866: In answer to a peti- 
tion sent to the Presbytery of Lafayette, praying for a church or- 
ganization at Wadesburg, Cass County, Mo., the Rev. George Miller, 
of Pleasant Hill, Mo., was appointed by Presbytery to organize a 
church at the above mentioned place, which organization took place 
November 10, 1866, and by mutual consent of its members is to be 
called Sugar Creek. The following officers were elected, viz. : J. 



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K. Morrow and J. M. C. Wilson, Elders; and D. T. Morrow and 
David Erwin, Deacons. The membership is as follows: J. K. Mor- 
row, J. M. C. Wilson, D. T. Morrow, Matthew Morrow, David Erwin, 
J. M. Erwin, S. S. Hughes, Melinda E. Morrow, B. H. Wilson, Eliza- 
beth Morrow, Sarah Morrow, Mary J. Erwin, Elizabeth Wilson, 
Emma E. Erwin, Eliza H. Wilson, Martha J. Wilson, Kate M. Mor- 
row, Belle M. Morrow. J. M. C. Wilson, Clerk.' 

"S. S. Hughes, Matthew Morrow and J. M. Erwin were the first 
Board of Trustees. I might remark, parenthetically, that all the 
above named members had lately come from Ohio, 14 from Wayne 
County, and 13 from Sugar Creek church, Dalton, 0. The Rev. 
J. H. Byers, of Danville, Ky., preached for us on August 18, 1867, 
in the Morrow Grove, where during the summer we had been having 
a Sabbath school. During the winter of 1867-8 the church wor- 
shipped in the Wadesburg school house; but in the meantime a 
church building was being erected. September 24 the Presbytery 
of Lafayette met in the new church, and on the 27th the church 
was dedicated free of debt, costing about $1,800. The house was 
in the village of Grant, though the pcstoffice was Wadesburg. April 
13, 1874 the name was changed to Olive Branch; and such it re- 
mained until April 12, 1887, when the Presbytery of Osage, sitting 
at Pleasant Hill, ratified the action of the church in changing the 
name from Olive Branch to the First Presbyterian Church of Creigh- 
ton, having removed the church to the new town of Creighton on 
the railroad. 

"The Women's Missionary Society was organized April 21, 1877, 
and has always been a great power for good in the church." 

The Elders in the order of ordination have been : J. K. Morrow, 
J. M. C. Wilson, R. L. Taylor, W. B. Wills, J. W. Byers, J. D. King, 
David Erwin, S. S. Hughes, W. B. Constant and J. W. McClarnon. 
The church has numbered as high as 122 members at one time, but 
now has about 60. Wlien the house was removed from Grant to 
Creighton, it was torn down and rebuilt at a cost of about $900 
additional, including a belfry. A list of the ministers who have 
supplied this church will be found in the tabular history elsewhere. 

The ladies of the Creighton church had much to do with the 
organization of the Presbyterial Missionary Society, in which some 
of them have usually been among the efficient officers. September 
11, 1879, the Presbytery of Osage "Resolved that this Presbytery 
notices with great pleasure the interest in the work of Missions 
among the women of the Olive Branch church, and prayerfully hopes 
that it may deepen not only in this place, but spread far and wide; 
and that we heartily commend their efforts to organize a Presby- 
terial Missionary Society in connection with the Women's Board of 
Missions for the Southwest." 



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The Creighton cliurch lias never been able to maintain a min- 
ister for all his time. It has been a difficnlt one to gronp with others 
under the care of the same minister, on account of its distance from 
one from which it can be reached. For some years it has been 
under the care of the Pastor-at-large. 

DEEPWATEE (GEEMANTOWN). 

The history of this church is almost synonymous with that of 
the Eev. Amasa Jones, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere. It is 
not known when work was first begun in this neighborhood, to which 
Dr. Jones moved about 1838, he being among the earliest settlers. 
Enough members were finally gathered together to organize the 
church, March 13, 1842. Several of them were from the old Har- 
mony Mission. Some years later the adobe church was built almost 
entirely by the hands and the purse of Dr. Jones. It remained the 
only, and amply sufficient house of worship occupied in the history 
of this congregation. In 1844 a revival came, bringing into the 
membership about 40 members, 26 of them on profession of faith. 
Other seasons of refreshing were experienced there during the long 
pastorate of Dr. Jones, who remained with them until the close of 
his life in 1870. In 1867 he secured as assistant the Eev. B. F. 
Powelson. Mr. Powelson married a granddaughter of Dr. Jones, 
and remained with the church till the railroad left them off its 
line and took the members of the church away, necessitating the 
dissolution of the old organization in 1873. Most of its members 
became identified with the Montrose church. 

Though never large, this church and its Pastor had a marked 
influence on the entire surrounding community. As long ago as 
1845, Dr. Jones wrote of it: "The Deepwater church is still very 
feeble, and very peculiarly situated. It stands alone, like a little 
grove in the prairie. There are now three societies in its imme- 
diate neighborhood, and almost every adult in its vicinity already 
belongs to one of these.^^ Who can tell how many souls were bom 
again in that '^T.ittle grove in the prairie" ? how many weary travelers 
there refreshed? how many other churches might be traced to the 
zealous work there done? 

DEEPWATEE. 

The present church in the town of Deepwater is in no way 
connected with the old Deepwater or adobe church sometimes known 
as the Germantown church. The Deepwater church now in our con- 
nection was organized April 1, 1886 by the Eevs. E. H. Jackson 
and J. F. Watkins, the former of whom supplied it for four years 
in connection with the church of Westfield, Its only other regular 



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Supplies have been Ministers Coleman (2 years), Sproule (4 years), 
and Van der Lippe (since December, 1898). 

Soon after its organization it erected a frame house of worship, 
and five years later a six room parsonage. In both these efforts it 
was assisted by the Board of the Church Erection Fund. 

This is one of the churches most often visited by Evangelist 
Eailsback, at times with large ingathering. Its membership has fluct- 
uated greatly, owing both to these seasons of revival and to the ordi- 
nary fluctuations of a manufacturing town. 

DOUBLE BEANCHES. 

See Lone Oak. 

DOVER 

Organized in 1857. Lafayette Presbytery. Now in the Southern 
connection. 

DEEXEL. 

During the construction of the Pittsburg and Gulf Ey., (now 
the Kansas City Southern), the town of Drexel sprung up in the 
southwest corner of Cass County. Several persons who had been 
members of the Sharon church, three and one-half miles east, 
moved to the new town, and petitioned Presbytery to organize a 
church there, ^uly 12, 1891, an organization of 13 members was 
effected by the Synodical Missionary, Alexander Walker, and the 
Eev. W. F. Shields and. an Elder from the Sharon church. With 
the help of the Board of Church Erection the new organization soon 
obtained a convenient frame building, costing $1,500. The new or- 
ganization weakened the Sharon church so much that the time 
of the Pastor, which had theretofore been all occupied at Sharon, 
was divided with the new church, and later with the Fairview church 
also. It has had but three Stated Supplies — W. F. Shields, Wm. 
Sickles and George B. Sproule. 

EBENEZEE. 

See Eaymore. 

EL DOEADO SPEINGS. 

The church at El Dorado Springs was organized July 3, 1884, by 
Synodical Missionary Thomas Marshall, assisted by the Eev. J. H. 
Allin and Elder Sensenderfer of Warrensburg. 'None of these 
brethren were members of the Presbytery of Ozark, within whose 
bounds the new church was formed. At the next meeting of that 
Presbytery, however, their action was approved, and the church was 
enrolled, with the recommendation that "for the present it be grouped 
with contiguous fields in the Presbytery of Osage." As this was 
its logical grouping, the Presbyterial boundaries were soon so ad- 
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The town of El Dorado Springs is, as its name would indicate, 
a watering place, mucli frequented for the cure of certain diseases. 
Until the summer of 1898 its nearest railroad point was Walker, 
on the M. K. & T. Ey. It is now connected with the outside world 
by a branch line from that point, which puts it in good connection 
with all points except to the south. The town is growing, and seems 
destined to become still more important. 

The Presbyterian church which began with four male and nine 
female members has usually had only part of the time of a Minister, 
when indeed it was supplied at all with preaching. It has had very 
little pastoral work. The organization has under these circumstances 
naturally remained weak. In 1888 a frame store building, with hall 
above was purchased, which has since been used for church pur- 
poses. It is neatly fitted up and answers all needs, except in ap- 
pearance, which is not churchly. It is thought that when there 
can be a settled Pastor in El Dorado, this church will grow into 
one of the best in the southern part of the Presbytery. 

FAIRVIEW (BATES COUNTY.) 

The first Presbyterian preaching in the country neighborhood 
where the Fairview church now is was about the year 1890, when the 
Eev. W. F. Shields, now a Missionary among the Laos, then Pastor 
of the Sharon church, preached several times in the Fairview school 
house. As the Wesleyan Methodists then had an organization there, 
no further Presbyterian effort was made until the summer of 1894, 
when, the Methodist church having disappeared, the community was 
canvassed by the Rev. John B. Hill, of Butler, and found desirous 
of a Presbyterian organization. The Home Mission Committee of 
Presbytery then sent the Rev. T. J. May to preach once a month in 
the Fairview school house. His efforts bore immediate fruit. 

The church was organized ^^ovember 18, 1894, by a Committee 
of Presbytery consisting of Ministers John B. Hill and T. J. May, and 
Elder P. H. Holcomb of Butler. Eleven members came by letter 
and nine on confession of Christ. Meanwhile a church building 
had been begun on a lot adjacent to the school house, one of the 
most . sightly spots in Bates County. From the roof of the new 
church the carpenters reported they could see thirteen towns. 
January 20, 1895, their beautiful church, costing about $2,500, all 
raised at home, was dedicated free of debt. The exercises, on the 
occasion were conducted by Ministers T. J. May, C. H. Bruce, D. D., 
and John B. Hill. A series of meetings soon after conducted by 
Mr. May resulted in the reception of 67 new members, nearly all 
of them on profession of faith. 

A large share of the credit for the early success of this work 
is due to the consecrated efforts of its first Elder, Philander L. 
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work that lay so near his heart. Its Ministers have been T. J. 
May, Wm. Coleman and G. B. Spronle, nnder the last of whom the 
church was grouped with those of Sharon and Drexel. 

FAIRVIEW (HENEY COUNTY.) 
Organized in 1871 bv Osage Presbytery. United with Brown- 
ington. 

FAIEVIEW (JOHNSON COUNTY.) 
See Kingsville. 

FEEEMAN. 

This church, originally called Morristown, was organized in 
connection with the Presbytery of Lexington, by the Eev. Seth G. 
Clark, February 9, 1868. It began with three members. Its first 
Minister was the Eev. D. McNaughton, who remained till 1871. 
During his stay with them, a small house of worship was built. 
April 23, 1872, the Presbytery of Osage took this action: "A peti- 
tion was read from certain Presbyterians of Freeman in Cass County 
requesting Presbytery to organize them into a church and supply 
them with the preached Gospel. The signers were largely made up 
of the Morristown church. Whereupon the following action was 
taken: Eesolved that a Committee be appointed to visit the Morris- 
town church, and confer with them in regard to their present condi- 
tion and wants; and give them. instructions in regard to their duties 
to their former Supply, and to the question of a new organization or 
transfer of the Morristown church to the town of Freeman. Also re- 
solved that if the Morristown church shall formally vote, requesting 
Presbytery to change the name to that of Freeman, that the Stated 
Clerk be authorized to cancel the name when this Committee shall 
report that necessary action has been taken by the church." 

After Mr. McNaughton^s time the church seems to have been 
supplied by Ministers J. B. Vawter, Lie. J. W. Talbot, Geo. Miller 
(in whose time Presbyterv voted it $500 Home Mission aid). Lie. 
W. P. Baker, L. Dudley, and Josiah Thompson. A judicial case 
against an Elder in this church came before Presbytery several times, 
being postponed each time on account of the health of the accused 
until it was finally disposed of by his death. The next year the 
only remaining Elder refused to co-operate with or recognize as 
Elders two who had been elected in place of the one deceased. He 
was exhorted by Presbytery to co-operate with them thereafter. At 
the next meeting of Presbytery a paper purporting to be a request for 
the dissolution of the Freeman church and the disposition of the 
property was referred to the Committee on Church Erection." At the 
next meeting of Presbytery, April, 1882, the church was dissolved. 

GEOEGETOWN. 
Pettis County, Osage Presbytery, 1842. Never a vigorous or- 
ganization. 

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GREENWOOD. 

Materials are not at hand for as good a sketch of this church as 
we could desire. Soon after the war there was an immigration into 
the beautiful farming region about Greenwood. Nearly all that 
came seem to have had religious training, and to have a strong 
preference for the particular church in which they were reared. An 
early attempt to organize a New School Presbyterian church was 
made by the Rev. S. G. Clark, a small colony of whose friends came 
out with him from Ohio and settled at Greenwood. Other denomi- 
nations almost immediately followed. A letter from Mr. Clark dated 
February 5, 1868, says: "1 much regret the folly of Greenwood; but 

I can not feel that I am at all to blame in the matter 

Brother Miller of Pleasant Hill is going to organize several Old 
School families into a church, and the U. P.'s have already organized. 
It will take a stronger .... man than .... to make 
the Congregational church live long.^' This lack of cohesion among 
the various elements that ought to have been combined in one 
strong organization has been very marked in the history of the town 
ever since. 

The present organization at Greenwood was made March 1, 
1869, by the Rev. Chas. Sturdevant, of the Presbytery of Lafayette, 
and the Rev. J. V. A. Woods, of the Presbytery of Topeka. The 
original elders were James Wharry and J. L. Van Meter. There 
were eleven original members (five male and six female), ten of 
whom came by letter. The first year the pulpit was supplied by 
Mr. Sturdevant and by the Rev. J. W. Allen. The Rev. Geo. Miller 
of Pleasant Hill, who had not been preaching since he suffered a 
sunstroke some years before, was then called to take charge. He 
began with one service a day, twice a month. In three months a 
wonderful revival occurred that admitted about forty members to 
the little church that had only twenty when he came. A very effi- 
cient young people's organization was formed. But soon the finan- 
cial crisis of 1873 caught those carrying mortgages, and decimated 
the church. In March of that year there was a curious trial of two 
members, a man and his wife, who claimed sinless perfection, and 
that by their prayers they had cast out a devil from their own 
child, and had raised to life a man seven minutes dead. 

For many years the church has been weak, often unsupplied 
with preaching for a year or more at a time. Part of the time 
it has been supplied by a Min]'ster in the Southern connection. For 
some years it was supplied with more or less regularity by J. V. A. 
Woods, A. T. Robertson, Josiah Thompson, W. H. Rogers and 
C. C. Hembree. About the time the latter came, the Rev. L. Rails- 
back held a series of meetings there at which a large number of 
members were received. Soon, however, serious difficulty arose, from 
which the church was slow to recover. 



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The only Pastor ever installed at Greenwood (where his widow 
still resides), was the Eev. D. R. Crockett, whose installation oc- 
curred ISTovember 1, 1888. He remained about four years, being 
succeeded by the Eev. Joseph Mayou for one year, and by the Eev. 
Wm. Coleman for over two years. While Mr. Coleman was there, 
he was assisted by the Eev. J. F,. Watkins, of Jefferson City, in a 
series of meetings resulting in a large accession to the membership. 

The church has been several times supplied by Licentiates, 
during their summer vacations. Some of these have done good 
work, notably W. B. Chancellor, in the summer of 1896, since which 
time the church has enjoyed but little stated preaching. 

HAEMONY. 

Organized (in the Congregational form?) by the Missionaries 
of Harmony Mission, 1822. ISTever contained many members out- 
side of the Mission families. Merged its existence into the Little 
Osage, Marmiton, Deepw^ter and Double Branches (Lone Oak) 
churches. 

HAEEISONVILLE. 

After all the efforts that have been made, it seems strange that 
there is not now any Presbyterian church in Harrisonville. If there 
has been no Presbyterian harvest there, it has not been for lack of 
sowing and that often in tears, as will be seen from the following 
letter, written in 1849 to the Eev. Dr. Artemas Bullard, of the 
Missouri Home Missionarv Society. The writer was the Eev. Amasa 
Jones who had to travel seventy miles a month horseback to supply 
the place with preaching. He said: "I have just returned from 
Harrisonville. My mind has become so intensely intrested for that 
people that I feel it would be committing sin not to make a mighty ef- 
fort to do something more permanently for them. The importance of 
their location has been before too much overlooked. Should the 
great national road ever be made, it must necessarily pass, if not 
through the , midst of them, very near to them. As a county, it must 
be of vast importance — as much so as almost any one in the state 
— the starting and returning point to and from the great West and 
that which once was called the extreme East. Beside this. Provi- 
dence seems most fully to indicate that now is the time to strengthen 
that which is ready to perish. Could I devote all my time, with 
my enfeebled state of health, it would not be possible to do all 
that should be done. It is a field that calls for nerve and talent 
of no ordinary character to prepare the way for the glory and per- 
manency which, we hope, are to follow. In laying the founda- 
tion it will require deep digging and a perseverance to the end. 
Let us send up our cries to Heaven; it may be God will hear our 
groanings, and will come down and so order it in His providence 
that the very help needed may be granted. Shall a church be built 
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to and fro that knowledge may be increased shall, when they see 
them, bless Grod and take courage? It should, and it must, become 
an Appii Forum. Such a Dlace is needed for recruiting the energies 
and for exhilarating the spirits of those engaged in the great work 
of saving souls." 

Harrisonville has since those davs become an important town, 
but has never reached the metropolitan proportions, either com- 
mercially or ecclesiastically, that the good Dr. Jones longed for. 
So far as known, the New School church, with which Dr. Jones 
was then connected, never succeeded in forming an organization 
there before the war. Possibly the element he hoped to reach 
was that which formed the Cumberland Presbyterian church. 

It was not until 1860 that the Old School people effected an 
organization in Harrisonville. A committee consisting of Ministers 
J. T. Leonard and D. Coulter and Elder Grant reported, September 
22, that they had organized a church there consisting of seven 
members. Naturally this feeble organization could not survive the 
war. 

After the war, Harrisonville was one of the earliest points 
to attract the attention of the Eev. S. G. Clark, the pioneer Mis- 
sionary of the Presbytery of Lexington. He formed an organiza- 
tion there March 17, 1867. In February of the next year he wrote 
that there was "a grand field at Harrisonville for any live, strong, 
devoted man; but a third rate man will not do." He was much 
pleased to turn over the work there to the Rev. Hiram Hill, and 
wished that "we had forty men like him for Western Missouri." 
But Holden soon claimed all Mr. H's. time, and Harrisonville was 
supplied by the Rev. D. McNaughton, who had recently come from 
Canada. He was indefatigable in his labors, having as many as 
nine preaching places at once in that region. But the H. church 
languished. In June, 1868, the Rev. E. B. Sherwood, who had 
succeeded Mr. Clark as Presbyterial Missionary, held a meeting 
there, and reorganized the church with fourteen members j |the 
former organization having dwindled to only one resident member. 
He did not, however, succeed in getting what he desired, the settle- 
ment there of a man who should devote his whole time to that one 
church. The Rev. Philander Read labored there and at Austin for 
several months, 1869. This organization, like its predecessors, soon 
vanished. Its name was stricken from the roll of churches of the 
Presbytery, October 18, 1872, when an investigating Committee re- 
ported: "We find our members, with one exception, have united 
with the Cumberland Presbyterian church, feeling that there was 
no prospect of building un a church in our connection, and that 
further effort in that direction, at present, is useless. There is no 
official member, the Elders both being dead." 

The Home Mission Committees of both the Northern and the 
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recent years, but have not deemed it wise to attempt any further 
organization there. 

HIGH GROVE. 

Organized by Presbytery of Upper Missouri, upon petition of 
twenty persons in Southern part of Jackson andNorthern part of Cass 
County, presented October 4, 1855, fifteen miles southeast of Kansas 
City. See Dr. George Miller's reminiscences on p. 106. 

HIGH POINT. 

This church was organized by the Rev. James Younsf, April 
25, 1868. There were fourteen members, five male and nine female. 
The Rev. C. H. Dunlap, another member of the Committee, was 
not present. Mr. Young supplied the church until October, 1873, 
during which time a neat frame building, 26 by 38 feet, was erected. 
It cost $900 cash, of which $300 was raised at home, $100 came 
from the Board of Church Erection, and $500 from W. W. Hicks, 
of New York. There was also a large amount of volunteer labor 
contributed. 

Being off the railroad, twelve miles from the nearest point, 
this community has not grown, and th6 church has been a difficult 
one to group with others to secure preaching. It has been supplied 
at different times, with more or less regularity, by A. J. Johnson, of 
Otterville; by Robert Morrison, of the Southern church; by Wilson 
Asdale, John B. Hill and E. W. McCluskv, of the Tipton church; 
by A. E. Vanorden, of Centerview; and by Pastors-at-large T. 
J. May, L. Railsback and J. F. Watkins. 

Small as it is, composed mainly of the members of three or 
four large families, it has maintained a good Sabbath school and 
Endeavor Society, and is characterized by a strong missionary spirit. 
Though able to get preaching but once a month, it pays promptly 
for what it gets, and has usually had to send some one in on Satur- 
day twelve miles over hilly roads and bridgeless streams to meet 
the preacher at the railroad station, and to send some one back 
again with him on his return. 

In this church the Rev. S. Edward Young, now Pastor of the 
Second Church of Pittsburg, Pa., was trained, and to it he fre- 
quently returns for his summer vacation at the home of his mother, 
widow of the late Rev. James Young. 

The following report to the Presbytery of Osage was adopted 
April 12, 1882: "Your Committee appointed at the last spring 
meeting of Presbytery to inquire into the standing of the property 
left by Mr. Lockhart of Moniteau County to the nearest Calvinistic 
Presbyterian church would report that $121.42 and 80 acres of 
land were so willed. But the will is very vague, and in direct con- 
flict with the old Constitution of this State, 13th section. We are 



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of opinion, after consulting several persons, that Presbytery can 
do nothing in the matter. High Point is the nearest, and now that 
they have an Elder they can make an effort, if they so desire. Our 
County Attorney, Mr. Hazel'l, says that, in his judgment, to proceed 
would only result in defeat, and serve to illustrate the old adage 
of throwing good money after bad. 

"A. Walker, Chn., for the Com." 

HOLDEK 

This church was organized by the Eev. Seth G-. Clark, N"ovember 
4, 1866, with seven members, all by letter, three male and four 
female. It was the first church Father Clark organized in this 
State. Of its beginnings he wrote : "This is the smallest church I have 
ever known ; but I am satisfied that it is a true branch of the 
Living Vine, and will yet bring forth much fruit. The sacrament 
of the Lord^s Supper was administered at 3 p. m., and there was 
preaching in the evening. Before the day closed there were five 
who expressed the desire to unite with us — three by letter and two 
on profession of their faith — the first opportunity that should pre- 
sent. There is in Holden no house of worship. It is a new place, 
built up since the war, and every one has been struggling to make 
his family comfortable; and few hav-e felt any particular interest 
in religious things. The brethren are so limited in their means 
that they had almost given up the idea of building a house of wor- 
ship this fall; but after meeting was dismissed last Sabbath evening, 
I spoke to a gentleman whom I had that day noticed in the house 
for the first time, and found he was a Christian man and a Presby- 
terian, and says he will take hold and help us; but insists that 
we must at once erect a house of worship. Passing down the street 
on Monday morning, I met one who very seldom goes to church. He 
gave me a very cordial shake of the hand, and then inquired why we 
did not build a church. Said he: ^I do not go to meeting very 
often, but we need a church, and I will give you $50 and all the 
teaming you want.' Another man made a similar offer. I advised 
the brethren to put their shoulders to the work immediately." They 
acted on the advice, and secured' in a few months a frame house, 33 
by 46 feet, costing $1,200, of which the Board of Church Erection 
gave $400, and $200 more came from outside sources. 

The first Pastor was the Eev. Hiram Hill, who began his work 
in April, 1868, was installed by the Presbytery of Osage, May 10, 
1870, and released March 18, 1873. In October of that year he 
was succeeded by the Rev. Wm. J. Lee, who was soon installed and 
remained Pastor till ^^ovember v, 1882. During his pastorate the 
church grew rapidly, reaching a membership of about 250. The old 
house of worship became too small for their needs, and a better 
one was begun. It is of brick, 64 by 80 feet, with an 85 foot tower 



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on the street corner, with a smaller tower rising 36 feet. There is 
a 1,500 lb. bell in the tower. The church is heated by furnace, and 
is conveniently arranged, with sliding doors allowing the several 
rooms to be thrown together. It was completed about the time 
Mr. Lee resigned on account of ill health. It was dedicated in 
February, 1883, free of debt, having cost $11,447.80. 

Until recently the Holden church has always been promptly 
supplied with preaching, whenever there was a change in the pas- 
torate. Its Ministers have been W. E. Henderson, S. S., 1883-5; 
Lewis I. Drake, D. D., P., 1885-6; Oscar G. Morton, P., 1887-91; 
Wm. T. Wardle, P., 1892-5; and E. Cooper Bailey, P., 1895-9. Ow- 
ing to the removal of the railroad shops, several years ago, the 
town receded in population and the church in membership. Still 
the church has always been well organized and actively engaged in 
a successful work. When Mr. Bailey left, there had accumulated 
a small debt, which the church (quite contrary to all precedent) 
succeeded in paying off in the absence for several months of a Min- 
ister to conduct regular services. The ladies of the church mean- 
while thoroughly renovated and painted the building, getting every- 
thing in shape for the resumption of full work at the coming of 
their present Minister, the Eev. J. T. Boyer. 

HOPEWELL. 

Near the present town of Odessa, Organized, 1850. Lafayette 
Presbytery. Building burned during the Civil War. See Dr. 
George Miller^s reminiscences on p. 106. 

HUDSON. 

See Appleton City. 

HUME. 

At the fall meeting of Presbytery in 1881 the "Eev. S. G. 
Clark reported the organization of a church in Bates County last 
May, the church to be called Hume. There were ten members 
entered into the organization. Dr. Wm. Anthony was duly elected 
Elder; and * * Underwood and Thompson were elected 

Deacons. Eight members have been added to the roll since the 
organization.^^ This organization seems never to have had regular 
preaching, and consequently to have been short lived. Its name 
was stricken from the roll of Presbytery Sept. 11, 1884. 

INDEPENDENCE. 

No full history of this interesting church has ever been written. 
Owing to its age and the many unusual features of its history, the 
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unacquamted with the facts, greatly hesitates to undertake to 
unravel the tangled skein. Perhaps his imperfect effort may urge 
others more competent to undertake the task. 

The earliest church organization in Jackson County seems to 
have been about 1830 near Ft. Sibley by the Baptists. The Cumber- 
land Presbyterians organized in Independence in 1832, and the 
Christians (Campbellites) in 1836. The Presbyterians did not 
effect an organization until 1841, but they had been among the 
pioneer preachers of this region years before. The earliest trace of 
Presbyterian preaching in Independence that has been seen by the 
present writer is that of services by the Eev. N. B. Dodge, the Mis- 
sionary to the Osage Indians, who occasionally preached to the 
people of Independence as early as 1829. His work, however, was 
with the Harmony Mission in the south part of Bates County 
until the abandonment of the Mission in 1836. For some years 
Independence was the Mission's nearest post office and trading post. 
Sept. 24, 1831, the American Home Missionary Society Commis- 
sioned the Eev. Benton Pixley for Independence. He also was one 
of the original members of the Harmony Mission. A notice of 
him in the Presbytery Eeporter for Feb., 1858, p. 174, says: "I 
find no report of him in the Home Missionary, and have not been 
able to hear of him through correspondence. It is altogether proba- 
ble that his stay was for a few months only, and that no permanent 
traces have been left behind. Independence has proved a hard 
field to all who have attempted to cultivate it. ISTo Missionary has 
remained there long from Mr. Pixley to this day." What other 
Presbyterian preaching the frontier town may have had before the 
organization of our church there does not appear. N'o doubt the 
organization of a church of our branch was delayed some years by 
the organization of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. 

A sketch of the church and of its Sabbath school that appears 
in the Presbyterian Magazine for Oct., 1896, p. 19, says: "This 
city is rich in historic lore. Its annals are an epitome of the stirring 
scenes of western civilization from 1828 to 1861; of the horrors of 
border war from 1861 to 1865; of the confusion and animosities of 
the unreconstructed forces which met here from 1865 to 1871; and 
of the wonderful progress of the west in the last quarter of a 
century. Few here or elsewhere know that this city is located on 
the northeast end of a great watershed extending from Pike's Peak 
through Colorado and Kansas, terminating at the Missouri Eiver on 
an altitude above the sea of 1049 feet, and above the Missouri Eiver 
at Wayne City of 327 feet — the highest point in Missouri except one ; 
but it is nevertheless a fact. * * The first Presbyterian Church of 
Independence, Mo., was organized here November 21st, 1841, by the 
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church was vexed with the distinctions which have since become 
historic/'* 

The organization was effected by the Eev. J. L. Yantis, with 
only nine members. There were no Elders until the organization 
was completed some six or seven years later. It was kept in existence 
by occasional preaching until the latter part of 1842, when the 
Eev. Dr. Bullard, of St. Louis, visited the place, and held services 
for a few days. These services resulted in the conversion of quite 
a number of people. Upon his return home he sent the Eev. Eeed 
Wilkinson, who remained but a short time. The division into Old 
and New School having now been begun in this state, the Inde- 
pendence Church sided with the Old School. A New School organi- 
zation was soon effected by Ministers Blatchford and Lord. The 
younger organization started out the better, and built a brick house 
of worship. It was supplied by the Eev. Chas. Lord, afterward by 
the Eev. F. E. Gray. The N. S. church prospered and did a good 
work for some years, until suddenly and very unexpectedly its 
career was cut short. "In a warehouse near the church was stored a 
number of barrels of powder, belonging to some Santa Fe traders. 
The house caught fire, and a fearful explosion took place, killing one 
man, and destroying some houses around it; in the number was the 
church building. ,It could not be used, and the little congrega- 
tion were not able to rebuild.^' There were some debts aside from 
the amount furnished by the Missouri Church Erection Fund. Mr. 
Gray, the Minister, soon left. For a time the little band struggled 
hard to rebuild. A mechanic estimated that the building could be 
repaired for about $500, or that the wreck "might be sold with the 
ground, and another smaller church built on another lot by adding 
some $500 to the proceeds.^' But no $500 was forthcoming from any 
source. A remnant of 4 male and 8 female members held on for a 
while until further holding on proved useless. The Baptists after- 
ward erected upon this location the building now used by the West- 
minster Presbyterian Church. 

Meanwhile the Old School organization had been supplied in 
1847 by the Eev. M. B. Price, who died while on a visit to Ken- 
tucky. Then the Eev. E. H. Allen, a son of the Independence 
Church, ministered to it for a while. From 1848 to 1852 
the Eev. E. S. Symington was Stated Supply. During his ministry 
the substantial, two-story brick church building on Lexington and 
Osage streets was erected in 1849, which continued to be the church 
home for nearly forty years. He was succeeded for a few months 
each by Ministers Wm. E. Fulton and Wm. H. Pawling. The first 

*The division into O. S. and N. S. took place in the East in 1837 ; in Missouri the di- 
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installed Pastor was the Eev. T. A. Bracken, who remained from 
Nov., 1855, until sometime during the Civil War (summer of 1863), 
when he went to Kentucky. The pastoral relation was not formally 
dissolved until 1866. His ministration is spoken of as very accepta- 
ble and useful. 

In 1866 the 0. S. denomination in this state was rent asunder 
by the Declaration and Testimony controversy. The Independence 
Church, like almost every other church in this region, took the D. 
and T. side, thus supporting the Independent S^Tiod of Missouri. In 
that connection it was supplied by Ministers Geo. K. Scott, Samuel 
Howe and Dr. John Montgomery, until, in 1868, Dr. M. M. 
Fisher took charge and remained until 1874. In that year the 
Independent Synod went into what is now known as the Presby- 
terian Church in the United States. The Independence Church did 
not go with it. The statement of the position of the church is thus 
given by its Elder, John N. Southern: "When in 1866 the Synod 
of Missouri became independent, the church maintained its Presby- 
terial and synodical identity unchanged in the Presbytery of Lafayette 
and the Synod of Missouri. But when the Presbytery of Lafayette, 
in the spring of 1874, decided to take ecclesiastical connection with 
the Southern Assembly, the Independence Church was not repre- 
sented, nor has it been represented in Prsbytery or Synod since that 
time.* The Presbytery left the church.^^ 

The church remained independent of Presbytery for 26 years, 
though for most of that period its name was kept on the roll of 
Lafayette Presbytery. They maintained that position as a sort of 
protest against the ecclesiastical rupture growing out of the Civil 
War. For all those years they maintained "that the causes for con- 
tinual separation of the two bodies [commonly known as the North- 
ern and Southern Presbyterians] have been removed and the time 
for the union of the two churches has come. But negotiations failed, 
and the Independence Church was left to live a while longer without 
Presbyterial relations, awaiting the obliteration of the lines between 
the North and the South, and subordinating personal preferences and 
prejudices to the preservation of the peace and unity of their con- 
gregation. Their house of worship [was] opened to the courts of 
Lafayette and Kansas City Presbyteries. * * The . . church 
yields to none in its fealty to Presbyterianism, and stands for the 
unity of the general Church (as it did for its own unity) as it 
existed when [the Independence Church] was organized in 1841, 
never having by act or deed, line or precept, changed or sanctioned 
any of the changes that have befallen the general organization.^' 

During the period of its independent existence, the church 
enjoyed the pastoral services of Dr. J. E. Wheeler for ten years; of 

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Dr. Henry A. Nelson, one year; and of Dr. A. D. Madeira for thir- 
teen years. Under the ministration of the last of these, the present 
house of worship, finely located and the best in the city, was secured 
at a cost of about $45,000, and a parsonage on an adjoining lot at a 
cost of about $5,000. 

During the quarter of a century of its independence, many efforts 
were made to get the congregation to assume Presbyterial relations 
again. After the failure of one of these efforts in 1894, some forty 
members withdrew and organized what is now known as the West- 
minster Presbyterian Church, in connection with the Southern 
Assembly. The parent church, however, remained independent as 
before for some five years longer, until, on Dec. 13, 1899, at a meet- 
ing called to consider the matter of Presbyterial relations, the con- 
gregation voted unanimously to send delegates to the Presbytery of 
Kansas City. The delegates and the church were cordially received 
and enrolled, as was soon after Pastor Madeira, though he no longer 
serves the church. Since its admission to Presbytery the church has 
been without a regular Pastor until the coming of the Eev. C. C. 
McGinley, installed at the spring meeting of Presbytery in 1901. 
The outlook for large usefulness on the part of both Pastor and 
people now seems most flattering. 

No sketch of the Independence Church would be complete with- 
out a notice of its Sabbath school, unique among all the Sabbath 
schools we ever knew of. The earliest Sabbath school organized in 
Jackson County was begun about 1839 by John McCoy and 
Benjamin Wallace, soon after the completion of the Cumberland 
Presbyterian house of worship. For some years the school continued 
as a union organization. "After a time, however, the Methodists 
concluded to leave; the Missionary Baptists soon followed; and the 
Presbyterians, having secured a temporary place of worship, had 
a school of their own, which has continued, uninterruptedly, from 
that day to this. * * In 1849 a house of worship was erected, 
dedicated and occupied by the members of the First Presbyterian 
Church of Independence. This they sold, and removed to their 
new and more commodious building on the corner of Lexington and 
Pleasant streets. The Sunday school grew and prospered during all 
these years, having in the new building a convenient and pleasant 
arrangement of rooms for each of their primary, intermediate and 
Biblical departments. The number of scholars at one time was 198, 
with an average attendance of 100. The library contains 600 volumes 
of as choice literature as is to be found in any school. The officers, 
with the exception of the Superintendent, have been changed from 
time to time; and, although Mr. John McCoy has asked to be 
relieved from his place, he has been retained as Superintendent 
until this, his forty-seventh year.^^ Thus wrote one in 1896. Mr. 
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Superintendent of its Sabbath school, in the fifty-second year of his 
continuous position as Superintendent, and in .the sixty-second year 
of his position as one of the principal workers in the same school! 
Who knows of so long a service? Who knows of one more worthily 
performed? 

JEFFERSON CITY. 

Before the admission of the State of Missouri into the Union, in 
1821, the Territorial Legislature appointed Commissioners to locate 
the Capital for the new state. They selected the present site of 
Jefferson City, then unsettled. The first sale of lots there is said to 
have occurred in 1823 ; but the capital was not removed thither from 
St. Charles until 1826. The town grew slowly. Religious organiza- 
tions were few. Among the earliest of these was the Presbyterian 
church, organized on the third Sabbath in June, 1834, by the Rev. 
Robert L. McAfee. The organization then effected was so different 
from those of the present day in several important particulars that 
it deserves more than a passing notice. The account that follows 
(as indeed the materials for this entire sketch) is mainly from the 
pen of Elder Oscar G. Burch. 

After sermon, sundry persons who had belonged to the Presby- 
terian Church in other parts of the country, but who had recently 
removed and settled in the City of Jefferson, havinsr with them their 
"dismissions," expressed a wish to be organized into a church, that 
they might better maintain among them the worship of God, the 
preaching of His Gospel, and the ordinances of His house. After 
due deliberation, the following persons put their several letters of 
dismission into the hands of the Rev. Mr. McAfee, viz: Wm. 
Bolton, of Milton, N. C; Mrs. Mary Rutherford, of St. Louis; 
Samuel L. Hart, Mrs. Ann T. Hart, Catherine L. Hart, Thomas C. 
Hart and Ann Elizabeth Hart, of Aux Yasse Church, and the follow- 
ing servants of Samuel L. Hart, viz: William, Putney, Dick, Polly 
and Maria. The First Presbyterian Church of Jefferson City was 
thereupon organized, and a church covenant entered into, which, as a 
sample of the better class of such covenants then common, is given 
entire : 

"Being desirous of enjoying the means of grace and ordinances 
of the Gospel, which God has appointed for the benefit of believers 
and the advancement of the interests of His church upon earth, we 
cfo cordially unite ourselves for the purpose of being organized into 
a church to be known by the name of the First Presbyterian Church 
of the City of Jefferson, Mo. We therefore solemnly covenant before 
God to watch over each other in the Lord; to seek the peace, purity 
and prosperity of the church; in Christian love, meekness and for- 



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bearance to counsel, admonish and encourage each other, as God has 
directed in His Word. 

"We further mutually agree, by Divine assistance, to adorn the 
doctrine of God our Savior, as becometh saints before the world; to 
visit the sick and afflicted; to observe the Sabbath; to maintain 
(those of us who are heads- of families) the worship of God in our 
families; to instruct, by precept and .example, our children in the 
duties and doctrines of our holy religion; to maintain, if possible, 
the preaching of the Gospel amongst us ; and to attend all the means 
of grace and ordinances which the Lord Jesus Christ has appointed 
in His Word to be observed by His Church upon earth. We also 
agree in receiving the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament as 
being divinely inspired, and as containing the only unerring rule 
of faith and practice, as teaching the doctrine of the Trinity, justifi- 
cation by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, repentance and forsaking 
of sin, enjoining a life of holy obedience to the commands of God; 
and a future state of rewards and punishments, together with the 
doctrines of grace taught by Jesus Christ and His Apostles. 

"And we further agree to take the Confession of Faith as 
received and adopted by the Presbyterian Church in these United 
States for our book of discipline, and as containing the system of 
doctrines and duties revealed in the Word of God. 

"Thus we do mutually covenant and humbly pray that the great 
Head of the Church would bless us and make us useful, and through 
the riches of His grace prepare us for the employments and enjoy- 
ments of His Church Triumphant." 

Thus grounded in doctrine and polity, the church grew and 
prospered under the able ministrations of its founder and others. 
The first services were held in a little log house that stood for many 
years thereafter on High street, east of Monroe. The Eev. R. L. 
McAfee supplied the church regularly, part of the time in connection 
with the Millersburg and Round Prairie churches, until 1842. July 
16, 1843, the Rev. Hiram P. Goodrich, D. D., was installed Pastor. 
The meeting was protracted to Sabbath evening, July 2d, hi^ "labors 
being blessed with the outpouring of God's Holy Spirit in this church 
to the convincing and converting of many souls.^' He remained 
Pastor until the fall of 1845. During his pastorate a lot was pur- 
chased, and a neat stone edifice erected for the use of the congrega- 
tion. He was followed for a short time by the Rev. David Coulter, 
and later by the Rev. Richard H. Allen, who was installed but did 
not remain long. Mr. Coulter then supplied the church again until 
the next Pastor came. 

Nov. 28, 1852, the Rev. John G. Fackler was installed Pastor. 
For several years he had been a merchant in the city and a member 
of this church and later of that at Linn. He served with marked 
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beloved among the churches of the state. He died a few years ago at 
Springfield, Mo. His remains were brought back to Jefferson City 
for interment in Woodlawn Cemetery. His aged widow still resides 
in Jefferson Cit}^, a faithful communicant and member of the organi- 
zation that succeeded the one her husband served so well. 

The only other Ministers this church had before the Civil War 
were the Rev S. D. Longhead, for a short time, and the Rev. John J. 
Cooke, who remained Pastor until the winter of 1860. The coming 
on of the war then virtually terminated the existence of this original 
organization, which had during its 26 years of existence received 212 
members all told. The next record found is that of June 1, 1865, 
when the Trustees were authorized to sell the church property, then 
quite valuable. It was bought by the M. E. Church, North. In 1865, 
in 1868 and in 1872, unsuccessful attempts were made to revive this 
original or^-anization, which had long adhered to the Old School 
Assembly. The church numbered grand men and women among its 
members, whose households were of the same faith. 

At the close of the war, the Rev. Dr. A. T. I^orton, the ^^'ew 
School District Secretary of Home Missions, visited the city. Find- 
ing it impossible to revive the Old School organization, whose house 
had been sold for debt, and whose members were scattered and dis- 
pirited, he sent the Rev. J. Addison Whitaker, in Dec, 1865. Under 
Mr. Whitaker's care a New School organization was effected Feb 4, 
1866, composed of but 3 men and 8 women, several of them mem- 
bers of the former organization. This church was then connected 
with the Presbytery of St. Louis, from which it received substantial 
assistance. The First Presbvterian Church of St. Louis, of which 
the Rev. Dr. H. A. Nelson was then Pastor, assumed the payment of 
the rent of the hall in which the services were held. The second year 
the Nelson Bible Class, of Auburn, N. l., paid the rent. Large 
assistance was also received from the Home Missionarv and Church 
Erection Funds. A lot was purchased (for $2,400) on the corner of 
Madison and McCarty streets, on which the erection of a substantial 
brick chapel was begun, which was completed about 1870 at a cost of 
$8,000. The entire cost of building, grounds and improvements was 
about $12,000. Part of this was raised by the sale of the Warsaw 
Church building, an account of which appears in the sketch of the 
Warsaw Church given elsewhere. 

Of the period that followed, Elder 0. 0. Burch, who became a 
member of this organization at its third communion, savs : "Zeal and 
discretion do not always go hand in hand. To successfully organize 
a band, ever so faithful, to secure the ground and the means to erect 
a building, and to steer safely through the storms following the foot- 
steps of the strife and bitterness engendered by the Civil War, were 
a serious problem. For a time, with an energy and determination 
that would not be thwarted, or brook opposition from within or 



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without, it did seem that the leader might be successful. But at last 
a contractor failed and ran away with the funds which belonged to 
material men and laborers. Then came mechanic's liens, suits and 
the usual result, following closely a panic. Those who had endorsed 
failed financially, and the whole fabric seemed to dissolve." This 
dishonesty left the church with a debt of $4,900, drawing interest at 
the rate of 10 per cent and 12 per cent, aside from the loan from the 
Board of Church Erection for $3,600. The Presbytery and Synod 
were appealed to, the debt reduced and the property saved, though 
almost a deathblow had been dealt the church. 

An effort was made to keep up the church. In 1873 the Kev. 
W. G. Keady became the Supply, remaining two years. The dis- 
couragements had then became so great as to reduce the membership 
to a few, without Elders. "But some did not bow the knee to Baal, 
and the church, through its Sabbath school, still retained life." 
Great credit is due to Mr. Burch for his services in keeping up the 
school during the long years of religious famine that followed. With 
the exception of occasional sermons by the Kev. B. H. Charles, in 
1878-9, the church was without preaching for ten years. 

"In September, 1883, Synodical Missionary, Thomas Marshall, 
brought together the entire seventeen remaining members, and suc- 
ceeded not only in compromising the old indebtedness (the aggregate 
of all foreign contributions being included in the trust to the Board 
of the Church Erection Fund), but in securing enough locally to do 
this, place the building in a condition to occupy, secure by purchase 
the bell of the old church, and to start forward the work by the 
promise of a Pastor. 

^^To build up the church spiritually and financially has been a 
serious matter. Amid renewed disappointments and circumstances 
that were sufficient to cause the stoutest heart to quail and doubt, the 
little church has gone steadily on, not always forward as it some- 
times appeared, yet as through fire. Truly God loveth whom He 
chasteneth; and the church at Jefferson City has survived much 
tribulation. But let us not dwell on its adversity, but turn to its 
prosperity. 

'TTnder the visitations of Dr. Marshall, the church had frequent 
services, and grew in faith and numbers. Stated Supplies were 
secured, but proved only temporary, illness and other causes inter- 
vening. Special services were held by the Eev. W. H. Clagett in the 
fall of 1885. In December of that year, the Eev. Oscar W. Gauss 
was called as Pastor. He served satisfactorily to the church until 
about March, 1890, when he resigned as Pastor, finding that the 
extra labor he had undertaken as Chaplain at the Penitentiary inter- 
fered with the duties and requirements of Pastor. He served the 
church, however, until succeeded by the Eev. J. F. Watkins in 
August, 1890. The latter served the church faithfully, and the work 



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grew under his ministrations, until the spring of 1894, when he 
gave up the field. During these years extensive improvements and 
repairs were made, an organ secured and all obligations met." 

In the fall of 1894 the church secured the services of the Kev. 
George H. Williamson, under whom it prospered and felt the need of 
a church auditorium such as that planned years before for the com- 
pletion of their building. He found that the King^s Daughters had 
the nucleus of a fund for the church addition. "Before winter set 
in the plans were prepared and the funds turned over to the 
Trustees for the foundation, which was built and paid for. In the 
spring, despite the unexpected agitation of the question of capital 
removal, which threatened disaster to all enterprises, the church was 
under way, contracted for and in due time completed and equipped at 
a cost of about $6,500, all contributed locally save $700 from the 
Board of the Church Erection Fund. A marvelous thing indeed, and 
the wonder of all who beheld it." The church now stands one of 
the handsomest and most complete in all its furnishing and arrange- 
ments of any in the Presbyterv. Just one year after he was installed, 
Mr. Williamson resigned, having added one more to the long list of 
church buildings erected and paid for during his ministry. 

On the first Sabbath in January, 1896, the present Pastor, the 
Eev. John F. Hendy, D. D., began his work with this church. He 
was installed the 26th of May, following. His labors here as else- 
where have been blessed, and church and Pastor are now regarded as 
among the strongest in the Presbytery. Its membership, though still 
below 150, is now the largest in its history. 

PEESBYTERIAmSM m KANSAS CITY. 

The history of our denomination in this city has beeen so far 
conditioned by the historv of the city itself that before giving any 
of the separate sketches of our city churches it may be well to look 
at the general conditions. 

The beginnings, both of the city and of the Presbytery, were 
largely influenced by the proximity of the Indians. In 1808 Capt. 
Clemson, H. S. A., established Ft. Clark, on a high bluff overlooking 
the Missouri Eiver, near the present town of Sibley. This was the 
first white settlement in what is now Jackson County. The name 
of the post was soon changed to Ft. Osage, because it was the supply 
depot of the Osage Indians who then claimed this part of the state. 
The Indian title to this county was not extinguished till 1825. Dec. 
15, 1826, Jackson County was organized, then consisting of the 
present counties of Jackson, Cass, Bates and Yernon. Among its 
townships was that of Harmony, including few voters (if any) outside 
of the Harmony Mission. In 1827 Independence was chosen as the 
County Seat and laid off. About the same time the first white settle- 
ments in the present Kansas City were made by French traders, who 
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recently located in this vicinity by the U. S. Government. In 1831 
the Eev. Isaac McCo}', a Baptist, established the Sliawnee Indian 
Mission on the Kansas line just south of the city of to-day.* In 
1832 his son, John C. McCoy, made the first steamboat landing at 
the foot of Grand Avenue. The next year he established the town 
of Westport, which gave the name of Westnort Landing to the infant 
Kansas City, which was laid out in 1838. Feb 22, 1853, "the City of 
Kansas" was chartered. The population of this new city, which in 
1846 was estimated at 700, was so decimated *by cholera and other 
causes that in 1855 it was only 118. About 1857 it began to grow 
rapidly, reaching 4,418 in 1860. Then came the war, at the close of 
which the city had about 5,000 people. By 1870 the number reported 
by the Government census was 32,286; by 1880, 55,813; by 1890, 
132,716, and in 1900, 163,752. 

The religious growth of this vicinity has been somewhat in 
accord with these external conditions. Presbyterians, while not the 
most numerous or aggressive, were among the earliest in this county 
and have ever held a strong position here. The earliest Presby- 
terian preaching in this region, so far as discovered, was that bv the 
Rev. N. B. Dodge, the Missionary to the Osage Indians. He is 
known to have preached in Independence as early as 1829. The 
early growth and prominence of Presbyterians in Jackson County 
are well traced by Dr. Symington, in his letter given on p. 219. These 
organizations were all of them either entirely wiped out during the 
war or badly crippled. 

On the declaration of peace everything took on new life. The 
strategic importance of Kansas City was then recognized by all 
denominations, by none earlier than the Presbyterians. The pulpit 
of the First church (0. S.), which had been organized May 25, 1857, 
was then ably manned by the Rev. Dr. J. L. Yantis. July 16, 1865, the 
Rev. Dr. Timothy Hill organized a ^^'ew School church, and called 
it (in anticipation of the longed-for Reunion) the Second Presby- 
terian church. About a year later came the Declaration and Testi- 
mony split in the Old School Synod and in the First church of Kan- 
sas City. The large minority of that church formed what is now 
known as the Central Church, in connection with the Southern 
Assembly. Meanwhile the First and Second churches were grow- 
ing and working harmoniously, both interested in the work of 
church extension and making arrangements for the erection of a 
Third Church on the "Bottom," then known as "West Kansas," and 
containing a population of some 1,500 without a church of any sort. 
This organization was formed Feb. 27, 1870, and attached to the 
(IsT. S.) Presbytery of Lexington. Thus there were at the time of 

*Mr McCoy was the Governinent agent by whom the Shawnees were located in that 
vicinity. The Mission was under the care of the Methodists. 
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the Eeimion three churches connected with our Assembly, and one 
that later went into the Southern Assembl5^ 

After the general financial depression of 1873ff., and the grass- 
hopper scourge of 1875-6, came the rapid growth of the early eighties, 
resulting in the organization of the Fourth Church, Feb. 8, 1882 ; the 
Fifth Church, Oct. 18, 1882; the First Welsh Church, Jan. 16, 1887 
and the Hill Memorial Church, May 5, 1887. For some years there 
were several other promising efforts, mainly under the care of the 
Second Church, which assisted all the later comers, both by mem- 
bers and by liberal financial aid. On the collapse of the %oom" 
none of these survived, except the Linwood Church, organized Oct. 
12, 1890, the youngest born of the Presbvterian family. 

Kansas City Presbyterianism has been exceedingly peripatetic. 
The First Church has had four buildings, in four widely separated 
localities. The Second Church is now building its third house of 
worship, each in a different place. The Third Church has built 
three times, far apart. The Fourth Church has had five locations 
and two buildings, some miles apart. The Fifth Church has had 
two buildings and three locations. The Hill Memorial and the 
Linwood Churches have, each had one building. None of the organi- 
zations is now located within several blocks of where it began. Each 
has required liberal Home Mission aid at the outset. !N'one has 
become selfsupporting and successful in doing its own peculiar work 
until provided with a suitable house of worship, properly located 
and free from debt. All these (with one exception) are now alive 
and vigorous, having survived war, wind, fire, division and financial 
losses that surely would have wrecked any churches not providential!' 
planted and divinely supported. All are now harmonious and ener- 
getic, possibly more efficient than they could be if more numerous. 

As to the high character of the men that have supplied the 
pulpits of the Presbyterian Churches of Kansas City, nothing need 
be added to the words of Dr. J. H. Miller, when he gave the charge 
to the Pastor at the installation of Dr. G. P. Hays, in 1888. What 
had been true up to that time has been equally true since. He 
then said: "During the thirty-two years which have passed away 
since the Presbyterian Church began its organized work here 
[1857], there have been twenty-eight Ministers in regular charge of 
our several churches. With all these Pastors, with but one exception, 
it has been my privilege to have been acquainted, in most cases 
Imowing them intimately and loving them dearly. And I desire to 
bear testimony to the grandeur and nobility of their characters, to 
their deep piety and sincere devotion to the Master's cause, to their 
earnest efforts to advance the interests of our Zion, to assist believers 
that they might become strong in the faith, to so preach that they 
might be the instruments in God's hands of converting sinners from 
the error of their ways. Some of these are now saints in glory, reap- 



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ing the reward of years well spent in the service of our King. Others 
are yet honored ambassadors, declaring the message of good will.'' 

There has recently been formed in Kansas City a strong Presby- 
terian Social Union, embracing in its membership members of all the 
Presbyterian denominations represented in Kansas City, Mo., Kan- 
sas City, Kan., Independence and Parkville. 

KANSAS CITY FIEST. 

The First Presbyterian Church of Kansas City has had not only 
the longest but also the most varied history of any of the churches of 
our denomination in the city. It was not, however, the first Presby- 
terian organization in the limits of the present city. That honor 
belonged to the Westport Church, now extinct, which was organized 
Dec. 23, 1850. With that church the few Presbyterians in the city 
worshipped until the organization of the First Presbyterian Church 
of Kansas City, May 25, 1857. This was the third Protestant church 
to be organized in the city. Its first Minister, the Eev. E. S. Syming- 
ton, remained about three years, and was followed for one year by the 
Eev. John Hancock, an Englishman, who remained until after the 
outbreak of the Civil War. 

Of that ante-bellum church a later Pastor (Dr. Hovey) once 
wrote: "At first our church was a guest. It had no home of its 
own. The Fifth Street M. E. Church (South) was the only house 
of worship in town. * This building the Methodists used two Sundays 
in the month, the Presbyterians one Sunday, and the Baptists one. 
If any month had a fifth Sunday, it was claimed by the Episco- 
palians. In 1858 the Methodists needed the entire occupancy of 
their church. The Presbyterians accordingly built a frame church, 
on [the north side of] Third street, between Main and Walnut, 
where they worshipped till 1862. Meanwhile a livery stable had 
been built alongside, which did not harmonize well with the Qospel, 
so they sold out to the proprietor, who used the house for storing 
carriages, until finally, sometime after, it was destroyed by fire. 
Many interesting legends of a politico-ecclesiastical nature are 
associated with that old church. * * One Minister [Mr. Han- 
cock] even went so far as to pray in the same breath for both Presi- 
dent Lincoln and President Davis ; but neither side was satisfied. 
Pulpit after pulpit was vacated until finally a proposition was made 
that, if the Presbyterians would employ Eev. George Miller, they 
would sustain him regardless of sect. This plan was worked for one 
year. Being without any house of their own, the Presbyterians wor- 
shipped during 1863 and 1864 by turns in the Baptist Church on 
[the N. E. corner of Eighth and] May streets, and the Christian 

*It stood on the south side of Fifth street, on the corner of the alley west of Delaware 
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Church [N. W.] corner of Main and Twelfth, and sometimes in the 
old Court House. During 1865 and 1866 they occupied Long's Hall 
[on the east side of Main near Fifth].'' For the first year after 
their organization the Presbyterians attended a Union Sabbath 
school, sustained by all the chu.rches of the city. Mr. Symington 
then established the first church school, which was maintained till 
broken up by the war. It was reorganized by Mr. Miller and has 
been steadily at work ever since. 

During the war, Kansas City was always in the hands of the 
Federal troops. This fact explains the very unique invitation 
received by the Eev. Geo. Miller ^^to come to Kansas City and preach 
to the loyal people of the place." In his book (Missouri's Memorable 
Decade, p. 88) he says: "It was signed by two Elders of the Pres- 
byterian Church, and some Baptists, Episcopalians, Methodists and 
Congregationalists. * * There were about fifty Presbyterians in 
the city, and these were alienated over the differences growing out of 
the civil strife. My congregation as a whole was made up of all 
shades of religious and political beliefs. * * (p. 91). It can be 
readily surmised that in such environment my Kansas City pastorate 
was anything but smooth sailing. * * j fried to make loyalty to 
my God and my country my motto. But in those stormy times men 
differed greatly as to the limits and applications of such a motto. 
This fact often brought me into conflict with both extremes. I tried 
to give every one, soldier and citizen, their portion of moral and 
spiritual truth in season; but it did not always take well. * * 
(p. 92) Some repudiated because I did not pray to suit them; others 
because I did not alwa3^s preach on their ideal lines; some because 
I spoke against secession too severely; and others because I asso- 
ciated with men whom they did not think loyal. * * So I 
preached and taught school, and performed at times military duties, 
and tempered the asperities of the times, and resisted Satan generally ; 
but with miserably poor success along any of these lines." 

From April, 1864, to the spring of 1866, the pulpit was occupied 
by the Eev. J. L. Yantis, D. D. At the spring meeting of Lafayette 
Presbytery, 1866, twelve members of the First Church petitioned 
Presbytery to remove Dr. Yantis on account of his having signed 
"the Declaration and Testimony," and so becoming obnoxious to the 
Board of Domestic Missions. Mneteen petitioned for his retention. 
Presbytery, being composed of those that favored the Declaration 
and Testimony, declined to remove the Minister. The church then 
split into two nearly equal parts (the vote was 14 to 13), the 
minority, including the original members, with the Minister, form- 
ing what is now known as the Central Presbyterian Church, in con- 
nection with the Southern Assembly. It took several years before 
the present amicable relations were established between the two 
churches. Both began at once successful efforts for the erection of 



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houses of worship, the Central Church putting up a frame building 
on the northeast corner of Ninth and Grand avenue, where the 
Custom House now stands, and the First Church, a large brick build- 
ing, on the west side of Wyandotte, a little north of the present 
Exchange Building. The lot for the Central Church was given by 
John C. McCoy, at whose sole expense the original building of the 
undivided church had been built. 

The second house of worship belonging to the First Church was 
built in the fall of 1866, at a cost of $10,000, nearly half of it from 
the East. Of it Dr. Hovey says : "It was opened for worship on the 
first Sunday in Januar}^, 1867, and by a painful coincidence, the 
first service held in it was the funeral sermon of Mrs. Eraser, th(- 
wife of the Pastor. The house was dedicated in the following 
October, the dedication sermon being preached by the Eev. S. J. 
Mccolls, D. D., of St. Louis. In June, 1867, a tornado swept over 
the city, and forced in the gable end of the church, ruining the 
tower, and allowing the storm to drench the interior. It was rebuilt 
immediately at a cost of about $5,000, and in time to be occupied 
by the Synod of Missouri in the fall of 1867. In that church the 
Ministers were the Eev. George Eraser, 1866-8 ; and thereafter, on 
alternate Sabbaths, the Eev. John W. Allen and the Eev. Dr. W. L. 
Breckenridge, until the coming of the first installed Pastor the church 
ever had, the Eev. Eobert Irwin. He was to begin his labors on the 
first Sabbath in May, 1869. On the evening of the 27th of April, the 
church building burned. The fire, which caught from an adjoining 
building, might have been put out by a few buckets of water, had 
there been any fire department to apply them at the right time. 
As it was, the handsomest church building in the city, a comfortable 
brick, with a tall spire, was totally destroyed. Unfortunately the 
insurance on the building had been allowed to expire a few days 
previously. Before they could rebuild, the walls were blown down. 
On reading of the fire a St. Louis Elder pertinently wrote: "I see 
by this morning^s dispatches that a Presbyterian Church in Kansas 
City is burnt. * * Was it insured ? I think that failure to insure 
is unfaithfulness to the Lord." 

Dr. Irwin took hold vigorously with the discouraged people, 
and soon led them into their new church home on Grand avenue, a 
little north of the present building of the Kansas City Star. A 
new location was sought on account of the fact that the old church 
had been built nearly opposite that of the Second Church, then at 809 
Wyandotte street. While the new church was building, the congre- 
gation was welcomed to the use of the new building of the First 
Lutheran Church (then without a Pastor), on the west side of Balti- 
more avenue, a little north of Eleventh. Before the Lutherans 
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The Grand avenue building, which cost $1,600, was a rather 
small, frame structure, without spire, much less pretentious than 
that on Wyandotte street. It was always regarded as a temporary 
building, though twice enlarged, and used altogether for about six- 
teen years. There Dr. Irwin labored with much acceptance until 
called in 1873, to take charge of the St. Louis Depository of the 
Presbyterian Board of Publication. He was followed by the Rev. 
Dr. H. C. Hovey, who remained until the grasshopper scourge of 
1875 ; by the Rev. A. W. Colver, 1875-7 ; and by the Rev. Dr. S. B. 
Bell, 1877-82. The last Pastor in that house was the Rev. Dr. D. S. 
Schatf, who came in Feb., 1883, and remained until June, 1888. 

During Dr. Schaff^s pastorate the Grand avenue property was 
sold for $10,000 and the location at Tenth and Forest was purchased 
on which the present building was erected at a cost of $35,000. It 
was dedicated Feb., 1886. Before it was completed the roof was 
partly blown off, making the third time the buildings of this church 
were damaged by wind. The other Pastors that have occupied this 
pulpit have been Drs. G. P. Wilson and H. C. Stanton, and the 
present Pastor, the Rev. Wm. Carter, Ph. D. Here at last the con- 
gregation, that for nearly twenty years struggled along with the 
assistance of the Home Board, has become strong, well organized, 
harmonious and efficient, one of the foremost churches in the city, 
all debts paid, and able to reach out a helping hand to those now 
struggling as it once did. 

KANSAS CITY SECOND.* 

The close of the Civil War found a somewhat larger population 
in Kansas City than were here at its beginning. Church life, how- 
ever, had been almost extinguished. For a part of that war period the 
services of the First Presbyterian Church weije the only Protestant 
services maintained in the city. As late as the time when the Second 
Presbyterian Church was organized, there were only three Protestant 
churches here that held services. Among the many Missionary 
Agents that then visited the city was the Rev. Dr. A. T. Norton, 
District Secretary of Home Missions for the New School Presbyterian 
Church. Recognizing at once the strategic importance of this point, 
he wrote while here to the Rev. Timothy Hill, then settled in Illi- 
nois, and later visited him to urge him to take hold of the work of 
establishing a New School Presbyterian Church in Kansas City. 
The very next month — on Tuesday, July 11, 1865 — these two men 
arrived in Kansas City by boat from Weston, then ^he nearest railroad 
print. That night Dr. Hill preached the first sermon connected 
with the effort that resulted in the organization of the SecoT5d Pres- 
byterian Church on the next Sabbath, July 16, 1865. They began in 

*This sketch is mainly prepared from a discourse by the Rev. John B. Hill on the 
thirty-fifth anniversary of the organization of the church. 



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the Southern Methodist church.* There were only ten members to 
start with, only three of them men. A feeble beginning surely, but 
one fraught with destiny, entered into with much faith and prayer. 
The enthusiasm that led to the organization of such a mere handful 
into a church, amid crude surroundings, in a war-smitten city of 
about 5,000 people, was shared by everybody. All showed their faith 
in the future of the city by their works for everything that tended 
toward its advancement. 

Ten months after the organization of this church was effected its 
house of worship, at 809-811 Wyandotte street, was dedicated. May 
27, 1866. This was the first of seven such houses of worship erected 
and dedicated in Kansas City just after the war closed. Its Sabbath 
school had been organized only the Sabbath before. "Why not 
earlier?'^ do you ask. Because there was no place in which to hold 
it. That little band of faith was necessarily quite peritatetic at the 
start. It is recorded that once there were five successive Sabbaths in 
which they met not only in a different place each Sabbath, but on 
one Sabbath at least met in two places on the same day. Among 
the places most frequently used were the Southern Methodist Church 
already mentioned, the Baptist Church (where the Bond Shoe 
factory now is), and the Christian Church (northwest corner of 12th 
and Main streets). Growth under such circumstances was impos- 
sible. Their Minister therefore went east and secured the funds nec- 
essary for the procurement of a church home. The pews were given 
by the First Church, St. Louis, by which thev had been used ever 
since the erection of its original building in 1819, the first Protestant 
church in that city. Indeed, including salary, the church at large 
gave that first year considerably over $4,000 for the planting and 
housing of this church. Did it pay? The Second Church did not 
soon forget its debt of gratitude to the mother denomination that 
had done so much for it. May it never forget ! One name especially 
deserves perpetual remembrance — that of Mrs. P. C. Morrison, of 
Collinsville, 111., who alone gave $1,550, beside loaning $1,500 more. 

Everything seemed to favor the new enterprise. Immigration 
was large, accessions numerous, especially from young business and 
professional men, many of them recently Army officers. Death was 
unknown in the membership for the first ten years. The church 
building, neither large nor handsome, set up on posts at one end 
sixteen feet in the air, was nevertheless a meeting place that soon 
became to many a soul a real Bethel. The prayer meeting, which had 
been started at the organization and steadily maintained from 
house to house, not long after found a home in the basement story 

*Still standing, used as a livery stable, on the southwest corner of Fifth street and 
the alley west of Delaware. 



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put under the original building. That prayer meeting has been in 
many respects the center of the church's life and growth from the 
very start. It is not making an invidious distinction to say that no 
other prayer meeting in the history of the city has been so uniformly 
and largely attended. 

No other church in this region has been so uniformly sup- 
plied by those that stood at the head of their fellows alike in pulpit 
ability, pastoral fitness and ecclesiastical prominence. Under the 
ministry of Dr. Timothy Hill the church was organized, its house 
built and dedicated free of debt, and all its energies organized and 
directed into fitting channels. During his three years and three 
months, sixty-six persons were admitted to the church. Under the 
second Minister, Dr. Charles D. ^^ott, the house of worship was 
packed to the doors, enlarged, and packed again. In his twenty-two 
months thirty-seven members were received. The saintly William M. 
Cheever was Pastor of the church when the first large revivals came. 
He led the church to a degree of spirituality never surpassed. His 
years of heroic suffering, crowned by a triumphant death, gave 
emphasis to words so simply but earnestly spoken that he won all 
hearts and added many stars to his crown. During his six and one- 
half years, 281 were added to the church, 124 of them on profession 
of their faith. Under the 1)rilliant preaching of Dr. Charles C. 
Kimball, the church grew so rapidly that a new building was impera- 
tive; but before the completion of the recent building at the north- 
wesl corner of 13th and Central streets* the pulpit again became 
vacant. During his short stay of three years, 178 members were 
added. 

There is not space to go into particulars as to the more recent 
history of this church. In its second church home its first Pastor was 
Dr. Charles L. Thompson, who in his six years received 562 persons 
into the membership. During his pastorate the city was growing 
very rapidly, several new Presbyterian churches and Missions were 
formed under the auspices of the Second Church, and a handsome 
parsonage was built just north of the church. He was followed in 
1888 by Dr. George P. Hays, who remained four and a half years, 
part of them years of serious financial depression, but years in 
which the church was greatly edified and strengthened, 355 persons 
being added to its membership. After the resignation of Dr. Hays 
the church was supplied by various persons, during the time when 
one or more calls were extended to ministers whose congregations 
would not release them. Then came, in July, 1895, the withdrawal 
of about one-half its membership to form the church now known as 
the Westminster Congregational Church. The next Pastor was Dr. 

*De s troy ed by the fire that originated in the Convention Hall and swept away the 
Hall, the Second Church and its parsonage, and the Lathrop School and other valuable 
property, April 4. 1900. 



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H. D. Jenkins, who came in Nov., 1895. During the fonr years 
and nine months of his pastorate he received 396 persons into the 
membership, 99 of them on profession of faith, and that, too, under 
the most difficult circumstances that ever surrounded the church life. 

From these figures it will be seen that every Pastor the church 
has had has done faithful work; and, as the city. has increased the 
number of his possible constituents, each has risen to the require- 
ments of his position, and has brought into the membership of the 
church a larger average number of new members each year. They 
have been, as Dr. J. H. Miller once said, "men of learning, eloquence, 
piety and consecration; men whose influence has been wide, and the 
stamp of whose labors is not to be found in this church alone, but 
upon the whole southwest.^^ Each Pastor has recognized his 
responsibility as the head of the foremost church of the denomina- 
tion in the city; and from time to time each has encouraged the 
organization and support of new churches, even at the expense of 
members and money that might have been used to advantage in 
the home church. The Second Church has thus ^^ecome the mother 
of six churches, not by secession but by colonization and dowry.^^ A 
long and instructive history might be evolved out of that last sentence. 
Another might take up the activities and benevolences which have 
given the church a foremost place among western churches. It has 
had seven settled ministers, and has returned to the church at large 
at least seven of its sons as ministers of other churches. But this is 
not the place to go into details as to these things, nor as to the mis- 
takes made, the sad division experienced and the calamitous fire by 
which it lost its valuable property. 

After the fire of April 4, 1900, the church immediately be^an 
to hold its services in Music Hall, 915 Broadway, though soon with- 
out a Pastor. Its prayer meetings were held in the St. PauFs 
Eeformed Church, at 15th and Penn streets. Meanwhile the former 
site was sold to the Public School Board, a new site was purchased 
at the southeast corner of loth and Broadwa}^, upon which the con- 
gregation is now (1901) erecting a commodious stone house of 
worship. 

KANSAS CITY THIRD. 

The Dnibn Pacific railroad, the first to enter Kansas City, was 
opened as far as Lawrence, Kansas, in December, 1864. The next 
to come was the Missouri Pacific, which was opened for business in 
October, 1865. These met at the state line, and began the railroad 
occupation of the West Bottoms. Up to that time there had been no 
settlement in that now important part of the city. In the course of 
the next four years the population there reached about 1,500. There 
being then no house of worship on the Bottom, or even place where 
preaching could be held, individual Presbyterians went to work, 



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secured a lot and began the erection of a house of worship, wherein to 
gather and organize a church. The house cost about $2,000, of 
which $800 came from the Board of the Church Erection Fund, and 
several hundred more from members of the Second Church. Among 
those most active in the gathering of the church were the Eev. Gr. W. 
Goodale and the Rev. T. S. Reeve, both of them at that time out of 
health and engaged in business on the bottom. 

In the private diary of the Rev. Dr. Timothy Hill, under date 
of Feb. 20, 1870, is this entry: "At three o'clock I preached and 
organized the Third Church of 8 memhers. Ordained and installed 
Dr. 0. S. Chapman, Elder, and Bro. Goodale installed Elder. I 
dissented from the position that a Minister can be a Ruling Elder, 
and proposed bringing it up for the decision of the Presbytery.'* 
The Presbytery of Lexington, to which the new organization was 
admitted, very naturally sustained this dissent, and the church 
had but one Elder. 

In a historical sermon preached by the Rev. L. M. Belden, Nov. 
20, 1898, on the occasion of the first service in the new main room of 
the present church building, he said: "March the 13th, 1870, a 
Sunday school was organized of 52 members, and the Rev. T. S. 
Reeve was elected Superintendent. They seemed to have a super- 
fluity of Ministers, for of the eight original members five were from 
the families of Ministers; a Minister was the Superintendent of the 
Sunday school, and of the four Trustees elected on the 6th of March 
three were Ministers." 

That original building, on the northwest corner of Fourteenth 
and Hickory streets (which was enlarged under Mr. Railsback's 
ministry), was used until the encroachments of the railroads and 
business made removal both imperative and profitable. The bell used 
on that building was given by the Second Church, which was 
enlarged about the time the Third Church was building and had no 
room on the enlarged church for its belfry. In 1886 a new building 
was erected at 1413-1415 Genessee street, from which they were again 
crowded ou.t only two years later by the same causes. A new loca- 
tion was then sought in an entirely different part of the city. The 
membership were largely "forced to sell their homes, and most of 
them to be more convenient to their work,'' wrote Pastor Martin, 
"moved into Kansas, and have largely taken letters to the churches 
in Armourdale and Wyandotte.""^ But two of the old members 
remained with the organization on its removal from the West Bottom 
to the South Side. For a while preaching services were held once a 
day in each of the locations; but soon the old one was given up to 
a Sunday school, maintained for a few months by the Second Church 
as a Mission. !.''..; 

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The population in the neighborhood of the original church was 
largely American and Protestant, mainly connected with the rail- 
roads. Excellent work, genuine Mission work among a shifting pop- 
ulation was done there by the early Ministers of the church, J. H. 
Byers, 1870-71; D. C. Milner, 1871-5; L. Eailsback, 1875-83; W. E. 
Mack, 1884-6; T. B. Vrooman, 1887, and A. B. Martin, 1887-91, 
iLnder the last of whom the removal was made to the south side, in the 
spring of 1888. 

On leaving the part of the city where the church had so long 
been, the first services were held in a hall on Cherry street, south 
of 31st. Meanwhile the chapel was erected on the back end of the 
lot now used by the church, on the east side of Walnut between 30th 
and 31st. This continued to be the only building until the summer 
of 1898, when the main room was added in front of the chapel. 
Nearly the entire cost of the Genesee street and Walnut street 
buildings was covered by the proceeds of the sale of the original 
property on the Bottom. The Ministers that have preached statedly 
in the present building have been A. B. Martin to 1891 ; W. H. 
Hyatt, 1891-3; P. Heiligman and W. P. Nelson, for a few months 
each in 1894; L. M. Belden, 1894-9; and the present Pastor, W. E. 
Loucks, since Sept., 1899. 

The longest stay of any one Minister with the Third Church was 
that of the Rev. Lycurgus Railback, eight years. During those years 
several protracted meetings were held with good results. At one 
time during his ministry 14 were received by letter and 21 by pro- 
fession. But the church necessarily retrograded, owing to the 
encroachments of business and the shifting character of the popula- 
tion. Those that remained appreciated the work that he had tried to 
do, and on his resignation presented him a handsome gold watch as 
a token of their esteem. During the eighteen years on the Bottom 
292 members were received. In the chapel at the new location, 245 
members were received. Many others have been added since the 
completion of the building. The neighborhood is bcoming thickly 
settled with a good class of people, so that the outlook for the 
future is encouraging. Within a few months the church has, for the 
first time, swung clear of aid from the Home Mission Board, 
doubtless never to return. 

KANSAS CITY FOURTH. 

The- work which resulted in this organization was begun by 
members of the Second Church, in April, 1881. A Sunday school 
v^^as then established at 2110 Madison avenue, followed when possi- 
ble by a preaching service. Aug. 1st, the Rev. J. H. Miller, then 
supplying the pulpit of the Second Church once a day, began preach- 
ing once a day at the Mission also. Meanwhile the Second Church, 



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which was then building its own home on Thirteenth and Central 
streets, generously furnished the means to secure the erection of 
a church building at 1747 Dripps street (now called Belleview 
avenue.) It is interesting to note that part of the seats for this 
huilding were those that had been used by the Second Church up to 
that time, and which had before that been used for many years in 
the original building of the First Presb3rterian Church of St. Louis, 
which was the first Protestant church building erected in that 
city. That part of the city was then rapidly filling up 
with an American populat;ion, that entered heartily into the new 
enterprise. A church of 28 members was formed Feb. 5, 1882, 
while the congregation was still worshipping in the crowded rooms 
on Madison avenue. N'o name was chosen at the organization for 
the church since known as the Fourth Church. But one Elder was 
then chosen. The new building was erected the following summer, 
and dedicated Dec. 10, 1882, though with an incumbrance of $500. 
From that time on. Dr. Miller, who had during the preceding months 
been largely instrumental in gathering the Fifth Church also, gave 
all his time to the Fourth Church. He was installed Pastor, May 
6, 1883, after which he remained for five and a half years. 

The work of the Fourth Church was at first largely success- 
ful, often attended with revivals, and always with a good degree of 
interest. Gradually, however, the character of the population in that 
part of the city changed from American to foreign, mainly Swedish. 
The location of the church building was such that it was not avail- 
able for the American population only a few blocks to the north and 
east. The work inevitably dragged, and a new location was sought. 
N"ew cable car lines were carrying the people far to the east, on one 
of which (Fifteenth street near Porter Road) k store building was 
rented for Sunday school and preaching services. About that time 
Presbytery released Dr. Miller from his charge, though he con- 
tinued to preach for the original congregation until Jan. 1, 1889. 
He left with the warmest confidence of all acquainted with his 
work. In dissolving the relation Presbytery took occasion to say, 
among other things: "Inasmuch as the present condition of the 
church might indicate to those unacquainted with the facts a 
lack of faithfulness on the part of our brother, we consider it noth- 
ing more than justice to him to say that the condition as it exists to- 
day is attributable, in our judgment, to the fact that the float- 
ing population in the midst of which the enterprise was organized 
has given away very largely to a foreign element with which the 
staid principles of Presbyterianism are not congenial." 

The Presbytery finally, at the request of the remnant of the 
congregation, appointed the Eev. Dr. G. P. Hays and Elds. F. J. 
Baird and Jonathan Ford, of the Second Church, a Committee of 
consultation and to relocate the church. In the fall of 1889 that 



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Committee succeeded in leasing a location at the southwest corner 
of Tenth and Porter Road (Cleveland avenne) and in the erection 
thereon of a neat, frame chapel at the cost of $1,000, which amount 
was raised by the Second Church for that special purpose. Mean- 
while the services of the Rev. W. G. Pollock had been secured as 
Pastor Elect. On the day of dedication of the new chapel, Dec. 
15, 1889, the church was reorganized with 18 members, only five of 
whom had been members of the old church. The following February 
the west side property was sold for $3,000, out of which all debts 
were paid and a balance left in the hands of the Committee for the 
future needs of the church. The original church building was 
purchased by the Swedish Evangelical Missionary Association, by 
which it is still used. . 

In the second location hard and conscientious work was done, 
during the long period of general depression, by Mr. Pollock, who 
left at the end of a few months on account of serious ill health; F. 
B. Everitt, 1890-1; H. M. Campbell, 1891-4,and J. B. Welty, 1894-6. 
But again the location was adjudged by the majority of the con- 
gregation to be unsuitable, and under the lead of Pastor Welty, a 
new location was secured (1895) at the southeast corner of Tenth 
and Indiana, to which the building was removed. Part of the money 
in the hands of the Committee had meanwhile been used to add a 
primary class room (1894), leaving too little for the pu.rchase of the 
new site and the removal and renovation of the building. A small 
debt was thus incurred. Soon after the removal, the Pastor left, 
being succeeded by the Rev. Wm. Weather stone, who remained one 
year. 

In the spring of 1897, the Fourth and the Hill Memorial 
churches, both of which were in serious financial straits, were by 
Presbytery grouped for the next six months under the care of the 
Rev. E. W. McClusky, Pastor of the latter. Previous to this, 
internal trouble in the Fourth church had led to the request by its 
Session that Presbytery appoint a Committee to advise with them. 
That fall the Committee reported its futile efforts to adjust differ- 
ences and reorganize the Session. Presbytery spent much time in 
the thorough deliberation of the whole matter and at one time was 
about to dissolve the church, when it was finally decided to make one 
more effort to resuscitate it. It was 

"^Resolved, That the Rev. John B. Hill be authorized to ordain 
and install all or any of the Elders elected in the Fourth Church ; 
or, if they decline to serve, to call a congregational meeting to 
elect Elders, whom he shall install." 

Under this order Frank C. McCarty was ordained and 
installed the sole Elder, Dec. 5, 1897. To his faithfulness belongs 
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By this time the membership of the church had been reduced 
to only about 15, without regular preaching or prayer meetings, and 
the once flourishing Sunday school was nearly extinct. The follow- 
ing spring the Eev. Wm. C. Coleman began preaching once a week 
to the few that could be gathered to hear him. Progress was slow, 
and Home Mission aid impossible that year. But by the fall of 1898 
Presbytery ^Tieard with deep gratitude to God of the bright prospects 
of the Fourth Church of Kansas City, under the ministrations of 
the Eev. W. C. Coleman;" and appointed Mr. Coleman and Elder 
McCarty a Committee to bring the Fourth Church before the other 
churches of the Presb5rtery for such financial assistance as they 
might choose to give. In the spring of 1899 the church was again 
recommended for aid from the Board of Home Missions, since which 
time it has made such commendable progress that, on April 20, 
1900, Mr. Coleman was installed Pastor, and church and Pastor 
received the hearty congratulations of all who knew of the discour- 
agements they had been blessed in overcoming. 

KANSAS CITY FIFTH. 

On Aug. 13, 1882, a Sunday school was organized by the Rev 
J. H. Miller and Mr. W. G. Bell. Mr. Bell was elected Superin- 
tendent. 126 persons were present the first Sabbath. The school 
grew beyond the limit of accommodations for it. Mr. Miller 
preached there once a Sabbath until his church, the Fourth, was 
finished, Dec. 1st. These efforts resulted in the organization of 
the Fifth Church on Oct. 18, 1882, with 17 charter members. By the 
aid of other Presbyterians in the city, a comfortable frame chapel 
costing $1,000, was erected the next spring and occupied in July, 
1883. It stood on the corner of 16th and Lydia. 

It was several months before the new organization succeeded 
in securing a Pastor. The Ministers that supplied it the first year 
were J. H. Miller, J. W. Sanderson, Paul D. Bergen and J. W. Fobes, 
none of whom remained many weeks. Mr. Bergen went as a Mis- 
sionary to China. Sept. 9, 1883, a call was extended to the Rev. 
J. C. Taylor, of Cuba, Y., who soon came and remained three 
years as Stated Supply. During his ministration the church grew 
to a membership of 100; sold its building on Lydia avenue and 
erected in 1886, with the assistance of the Men's League of the 
Second Church, a chapel on the northwest corner of 12th and 
Brooklyn avenue, at a cost (for lot and house) of nearly $6,000. 

The first Pastor of the Fifth Church was the 'Rev. C. H. 
Bruce, D. D., who came in Feb., 1887, and was installed the 
following October. He had been ordained to the full work of the 
ministry, on a Home Mission field in Iowa, on the same night on 
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"undertook the task of self support, which, even in the midst 
of the prevailing business activity of that time, seemed to some 
to be an heroic effort. But the hearts of the people were full of 
enthusiasm and their visions of great things soon to be realized 
were almost unbounded. But in a few short months the collapse 
came, and the tug of war began. If the changed condition of things 
which necessarily followed had been anticipated, at the time the 
church decided to stand alone, even the strongest hearts would have 
shrunk from the task. But once undertaken, it has never been 
abandoned, although it has been maintained at a cost of energy, 
patience and trial to faith which can never be understood or appre- 
ciated without experience." Despite all these difficulties, which 
continued throughout Dr. Bruce's pastorate, and for which neither 
Pastor nor people were responsible, the church grew and was ever 
one of the more important churches in the city. In 1890 the building 
was enlarged and remodeled to its present condition, at a cost of 
$2,500. 

Dr. Bruce resigned in the spring of 1897, and was succeeded 
that fall by the Eev. Irwin P. McCurdy, D. D., Litt. D., during 
the two years of whose pastorate a large number of new members 
were received, the greater part of the debt paid, and a fair degree 
of prosperitv reached. The present Pastor is the Rev. J. Lapsley 
McKee, who was installed May 25, 1900. With a desirable property, 
a splendid location, a faithful Pastor and a united people, the 
church now has a good hope for a bright and useful future. 

KANSAS CITY FIRST WELSH. 

During the "boom" times a large number of Welsh mechanics 
were employed in Kansas City, especially stone masons. Hav- 
ing been Calvinists at home, they naturally affiliated with the Pres- 
byterians here, and as naturally chose whenever possible to hear 
the Gospel in their native tongue. This led to the organization of 
the First Welsh Presbyterian Church, 23 members, on Jan. 16, 1887. 
Their only Minister was the Rev. Thomas H. Jones, who remained 
with them something over two years. The church soon disappeared, 
owing partly to its internal dissensions but mainly to the removal 
of much of the Welsh population from the city. It never secured 
a house of worship of its own. It was dissolved by Presbytery, April 
9, 1891. 

KANSAS CITY HILL MEMORIAL. 

At the spring meeting of Presbytery, 1887, a petition for the 

organization of a church in the southeastern part of Kansas City 

was referred to a Special Committee, consisting of the Rev. j. 

H. Miller, D. D., and Elders F. J. Baird, of the Second Church, 



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and Wm. Young, of the First Church. That Committee reported, 
June 22, that the organization had been effected with 16 members, 
May 5. The name was chosen soon after the death of the Eev. 
Timothy Hill, D. D., May 21, 1887.* 

The new church was adopted by the Men^s League of the Second 
Church, which undertook to provide for it a suitable home. Lots 
were secured for it on top of the hill on the west side of Brooklyn 
avenue, north of 22d street. There the League erected a foundation 
which was to be used for services during the few months that should 
intervene until the congregation should be large enough to require 
the completion of the building. 

The Eev. John C. Taylor, who had gathered the church, was its 
first Supply and later installed Pastor. The prospects then seemed 
flattering. There was a flourishing Sunday school and the banner 
Endeavor Society of the city. The Board of Home Missions con- 
tributed liberally. The Board of Church Erection promised a grant 
toward the completion of the new building, on condition that a rever- 
sionary clause in the deed to the property should be eliminated. That 
condition was never met, owing mainly to the serious financial re- 
verses that had overtaken many of those most interested in assisting 
the organization. Had it been met at the proper time, and had a 
suitable building been then erected, so far as human eye can now 
see, there would have been a church gathered strong enough to with- 
stand the years of general depression that followed. As it was, Mr. 
Taylor labored indefatigably and with a success that was encouraging 
under the circumstances. When he resigned his pastorate. Presbytery 
very heartily adopted the following minute : 

"During the last seven years Eev. John C. Taylor has been 
laboring in the j)astorate of Hill Memorial Church, of Kansas City, 
Mo. Though encountering adverse financial conditions (to which 
any Minister in that field must unavoidably have been exposed, 
from the depression of business which has prevailed in this com- 
munity for six or seven years past), and meeting other embarrass- 
ments which he did not cause and could not have presented, he 
has been orthodox in preaching, conservative and prudent in judg- 
ment, diligent in work, faithful and beloved in pastoral activity, es- 
teemed and respected by his church and Presbytery. He leaves the 
church united, warm in commendation of his sincere, untiring de- 
votion, and expressing regret at his departure.^^ 

After Mr. Taylor's resignation, the pulpit was supplied for two 
years each by J. S. Caruthers and E. W. McCluskv, each of whom 
met all the discouragements that had been previously encountered 
in addition to some that were new. Under these circumstances, it 

*This selection was quite against the judgment and wishes of the family, who knew 
that Dr. Hill was always opposed to all such names as Lutheran and Camphellite, which 
associate the names of men with religious organizations. 



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is not remarkable that the end was virtually reached when a Special 
Committee, sent by the Presbytery to investigate the Home Mis- 
sion churches of Kansas City, decided, May 10, 1898 : "1. That in 
view of the stringency of the Home Mission treasury and the con- 
dition of the property of the Fourth and Hill Memorial churches,* 
the Committee cannot recommend these churches to the Board for 
aid at present. 2. That the officers of both churches be requested 
to maintain the legal organization of each, until satisfactory develop- 
ments are made. 3. That, while the Presbytery appreciates the ef- 
forts of those who for years have maintained worship at these two 
places, it seems to this Committee desirable that both sites should 
eventually be sold, and the proceeds invested under authority of Pres- 
bytery in a more eligible site for a new organization." The result is 
now Imown — the Fourth church was barely saved, while the Hill 
Memorial church was soon disbanded and its property sold. 

KANSAS CITY, LINWOOD. 

At a meeting of the Presbytery of Kansas City, held at PIol- 
den, Mo., in October, 1889, Eev. George P. Hays, D. D., then pas- 
tor of the Second Presbyterian church of Kansas City, advised 
tliat the Presbytery recommend to the Board of Home Missions 
that $500 be spent in developing Presbyterian interests in the then 
comparatively sparsely settled Southeastern portion of Kansas City. 
The recommendation was unanimously agreed upon, the Presby- 
tery appointing Dr. Hays, Rev. A. B. Martin and Elder Frank 
J. Baird as a Committee to take charge of the work. 

Six months previous to this action a meeting had been called 
in the little frame school building that then stood on the northwest 
corner of Linwood and Woodland Avenues (the present site of the 
large Linwood school building) and the plan of organizing a church 
in that neighborhood had been announced. For some time a union 
neighborhood Sunday school had been conducted at that point by 
Mr. E. A. R. Racklitf. On June 1st, 1889, this school was taken in 
charge by Rev. William G-. Pollock and his wife, who conducted 
it — with a view to making it the nucleus of the future church — 
until the following December, when Mr. PollocFs health failed, 
and he was compelled to resign the work, the number of pupils 
having by that time more than doubled. 

On Mr. Pollock's resignation, the school was taken in charge by 
Mr. James Oliver Hogg, then an Elder in the Hill Memorial church, 
who was assisted by Mr. A. E. Ashbrook, Mrs. Mary L. Clark, Mr. 
and ^rs. Alex Hilton, and Mr. and Mrs. Eswick, who combined 
forces to maintain a strong school, and eventually to hold weekly 
preaching services, conducted by Rev. A. B. Martin. In the spring 



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of 1890 they were compelled to leave the school building, which was 
to be replaced by a larger structure, but those in charge were un- 
daunted, and began to conduct their services in the open air, under 
the large trees at the corner of Thirtieth street and Euclid Avenue. 
While there the little organization began to receive the services of 
Rev. Edward P. Dunlap, a recent graduate of Princeton Theological 
Seminary, working under a commission from the Board of House 
Missions. 

In response to a petition presented to Presbytery in the fall 
of 1890, the little church was formally organized on Sunday after- 
noon, October 12th, 1890, in the hall on the corner of Thirtieth 
and Euclid, by the Presbyt^ry^sf Committee appointed therefor; 
Rev. George P. Hays, D. D. ; Rev. C. H. Bruce, and Elder Wm. 
McEwin of the First Presbyterian church. There were twenty-one 
charter members. James 0. Hogg was the first, and for a time the 
only Elder. A unanimous call was at once extended to Rev. E. 
P. Dunlap to become the new churches Pastor. He was accordingly 
ordained and installed on November 7th, 1890. 

For the site of the church edifice, the southeast corner of Lin- 
wood and Woodland Avenues was selected. The Men's League of 
the Second Presbyterian church donated $650 toward the purchase 
of the lot, the Second church itself adding a like sum, the re- 
mainder of the purchase price being borrowed from a private indi- 
vidual. This indebtedness was at a later date transferred to the 
Board of Church Erection. The building itself was, however, built 
and paid for solely by the labors of the handful of charter members 
of the church, who themselves gave or solicited every cent of its 
cost and had it paid for by the date when it was formally opened 
for service on Sunday. February 1st, 1891. The cost of the 
structure was $2,095. 

In June, 1893, Rev. E. P. Dunlap resigned his pastorate. In 
the following Aug. a call was given to Rev. J. A. P. McGaw, D. D., 
of Toledo, 0., which was accepted, and he was installed on October 
3d. Dr. McGaw's pastorate was marked by great faithfulness and 
labor on his part, in the face of many trials, while the church be- 
came self-supporting in spite of the fact that these were the disast- 
rous years that followed the city's %oom," — years of difficulty dur- 
ing which many an organization in the city was forced out of ex- 
istence. Mrs. McGaw, the wife of the pastor, must not fail of men- 
tion as one to whom the church must ever owe much for her zeal, 
earnestness, and patient endurance and assistance. 

In the spring of 1897, Dr. McGaw resio:ned, accepting a call 
to the Third Presbyterian church of Fort Wayne, Ind He was 
succeeded bv Lie. Paul B. Jenkins, a graduate that year from 
Princeton Theological Seminary, and the son of Rev. H. D. Jen- 
kins, D. D., then the pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of 



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Kansas City. Mr. Jenkins was ordained and installed as Pastor in 
October, and is the Pastor at the present day (Jnne, 1901.) 

From its beginning Linwood church has been recognized as 
situated in a part of the city most favorable to a steady, even if 
a slow, increase in numbers and nsefnlness. During the first pas- 
torate it grew from a membership of 21 to 74; during the second it 
increased to a little over a hundred; and the annual report for 1901 
showed 220 members. The church has a. good Sunday school, under 
the Superintendence of Mr. A. B. Colton, who has held that posi- 
tion since 1897. It has a Pastor's Aid Society, a Woman's Mis- 
sionary Society, a Mission Band, and a Senior and a Junior 
Christian Endeavor Society. Eecent municipal improvements in 
its part of the city have made its site a most handsome and de- 
sirable one, its present difiiculty being that its building is far too 
small for its needs, to say nothing of its opportunities. Plans are 
already on foot for a new and a more commodious structure, which 
it is hoped that the near future will see, this being all that the 
organization needs to make it one of the ch^'ef Presbyterian churches 
of Kansas City. 

KINGSYILLE. 

At the spring meeting of the Presbytery of Lafayette in 1870, 
"the Committee appointed to visit Kingsville (Ministers E. Muse 
and J. W. Allen, and Elder Williamson) reported that they had 
visited that place and had organized a church of fifteen members. 
The name of Fairview had been chosen for the church.'' A good 
church building was secured within a year, but the main supporters 
of the organization soon moved away. Various efforts were made 
by the Presbytery to keep the organization alive. At the fall meet- 
ing of the Presbytery of Osage in 1873 a Committee of visitation 
reported finding but "five or six permanent members, no material 
to build upon, and a general opinion among the members that the 
church ought to be dissolved. The house of worship is 50x24 feet. 
Cost $1,600. The Church Erection Board has a mortgage on the 
property of $590. The house would not perhaps realize more than 
$400." The record goes on to state that "The report was adopted, 
and the Committee continued, and directed to visit said church, and 
in the name of the Presbytery instruct it to take better care of the 
property. It was also ordered that the Stated Clerk notify Dr. 
Wilson, the Secretary of the Church Erection Board, that in the 
judgment of this Presbvtery the time has come to foreclose the 
mortgage on said property." Would that in other such cases the 
Presbytery had been as prompt to take such action! In this case 
a valuable building, that however could not have been sold for 
anywhere near its value, was transferred by the Board of Church 
Erection to another congregation needing such a house of worship. 



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There was some opposition by the only remaining Trustee to this 
disposition of the property; but Presbytery dissolved the church 
(September 9, 1874) ; and voted that the Ebenezer (Eaymore) 
church be "recommended to the Board of Church Erection for aid 
to the amount of $500, and that the Board be requested to grant 
them the Kingsville church property in payment of the above 
$500." The grant thus asked was made; the church was sawed into 
sections, moved to Eaymore and re-erected. There it served for 
twenty years, until the present handsome building was erected in its 
place. 

KNOB NOSTEE. 

As far back as x^pril 14, 1855, ten persons petitioned the 
Presbytery of Upper Missouri for an organization at Knob l^oster. 
The Eev. A. Y. C. Schenck and Elder D. Calhoun, of Warrensburg, 
were appointed a Committee to organize them, if the way proved 
clear. September 27, 1856, the church was enrolled as having been 
organized since the last meeting of Presbytery. It was enrolled 
by the Presbytery of Lafayette at its organization the next vear. 
It was supplied in 1856 and 1857 by Eev. J. T. Lapsley. N'othing 
further has been discovered about this church, which seems to have 
become extinct before or during the war. 

The present Presbyterian church in Knob ^^oster was organized 
September 21, 1867, by Ministers E. Muse and J. H. Byers of the 
Presbytery of Lafayette. It began with six members. Under the 
charge of Mr. Byers, who preached at the Sugar Creek church also, 
it grew rapidly, and soon secured a house of worship. The field was 
a hard one on account of the long rides necessary to reach one 
church from the other: but Mr. Byers remained three years, to- 
ward the close of which he wrote: "It (the Sugar Creek, now 
Creighton church) is about forty miles from here' — twenty-five by 
railroad to Holden, then south fifteen. They always meet me in 
Holden with a conveyance. . . . The two points are too remote. 
. . . Allow me to say, and in the spirit of meekness, I have 
done much labor in this Presbytery; and I suppose more of the 
real hard labor than any other Minister in it." 

After Mr. Byers left, the Knob Noster church was grouped for 
several jeaxs with the Lamonte church, until the death of the 
latter compelled a new grouping. It was under the care of the Eev. 
J. C. Thornton for over two years before the coming of the Eev. 
G. W. Goodale. About this time there came on a series of trying 
experiences, common to all this part of the countrv, that accounts 
for the great mortality so noticeable among the churches of this 
Presbytery between the years 1873 and 1876. When we recall 
the financial panic of 1873, the short crops of 1874, the grass- 
hoppers of 1875-6, no wonder the churches large and small were 



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tried, some of them beyond endurance. A few quotations from 
letters of Mr. Goodale, then at Knob Noster, will well illustrate 
prevailing conditions. In March, 1874, he wrote: "My whole field 
is like a pleasant garden. Every family appears to be in the most 
cordial sympathy with all the rest and with the Pastor. I have 
held extra meetings, both for prayer and preaching, more than 
four weeks during the winter, hoping for a special blessing; but 
it still remains too much like the Valley of Dry Bones. Over so 
large a field I am perfectly conscious I am spread out too thin. I have 
over forty families to visit that are some of them members, and 
mostly in the country. My people alternate Sabbaths are scattered, 
and my Sabbath school influence is thus reduced to 00 almost. 
We have here at Knob Noster a very efficient Superintendent, which 
is a great help. The feeble churches must be cared for; yet it is 
sad that a church of seventy members with their families cannot 
have preaching every Sabbath.^^ 

In August of the same year Mr. Goodale wrote: "I see no 
way but that I must leave this field at the end of my year, September 
1st. Many of my people will be brought very near to actual want 
by the terrible drawbacks of the season. The chinch bug took a 
very large portion of the wheat and oats, and the corn is now past 
help. A great deal of it will not make a bushel to the acre. Renters 
are offering their whole crop to pay rent, and landlords will not take 
the offer. My people of both churches have voted unanimously to 
have me stay, if means can be raised; but I fear it will be im- 
possible. Several families are going to leave, others will go if they 
can raise a little money; while others still see no apparent means 
to provide for their families. The town is entirely dependent upon 
the country, which cannot come to their aid this year. They do 
not ask me to take less salary, and frankly say that if it cannot be 
raised for me, it cannot for anyone. This of course is gratifying 
to me although a sad case." Many such letters the Synodical Mis- 
sionaries and Secretaries of the Board of Home Missions received 
about that time. 

After Mr. Goodale left, the Rev. R. S. Reese supplied the church 
for one year. It then remained without regular preaching until 
1880, when the Rev. Thos. H. Allin preached there a few months, 
when the church again became vacant. During his stay, the church 
called Salem seven miles northeast in the country was organized 
and grouped with Knob Noster. In the fall of 1882 the Rev. W. A. 
Cravens took charge of the now much reduced organization. He 
remained two years without being able to add much to the member- 
ship. After another interim Licentiate S. C. Bates was called and 
ordained as an Evangelist, November 3, 1887. He was succeeded 
by Thos. F. Boyd ; by D. R. Crockett, and by Lie. Andrew A. Boyd, 
who was soon ordained as an Evangelist. The last named remained 



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with them, much appreciated, for six years. He then revisited his 
native Ireland, remaining over a year. During this time the con- 
gregation waited patiently for his return, upon which they insisted 
upon having his services again. His second term lasted a year, at 
the close of which he resigned, much to the regret of his people. 
He was succeeded by H. C. White, who remained until the fall of 
1900. 

LAMONTE. 

At the spring meeting of the Presbytery of Lafayette, 1870, 
"the Eev. J. H. Byers reported that he had organized a church at 
Lamonte, the church taking the same name. . . . consisting of 
twenty members and two Ruling Elders. On motion Presbytery 
recommended to the Board of Church Erection for the sum of $500 
to aid in the completion of their house of worship." Mr. Byers 
was then preaching at Knob Noster, with which this church was 
grouped during its entire existence. Its only other regular sup- 
plies were J. C. Thornton and G. W. Goodale. The church grew 
somewhat the first year, after which it steadily declined. Soon an 
oganization was formed in the ^ame town by the Southern Church, 
which still exists. Our organization was stricken from the roll 
April 14, 1881. At the preceding fall meeting of Presbytery, the 
Stated Clerk had been instructed to issue letters to the remaining 
members, and to request the Board of Church Erection to dispose of 
the property. Some of the members then entered into the new 
organization a few miles north, which has since been known as 
Salem. The Lamonte house of worship was then sold to the Bap- 
tists for $400, and the proceeds turned over by the Board to the 
Salem church. 

LAYNESVILLE. 

This church was upon the roll of Presbytery from September 
10, 1879 to September 29, 1886. It was organized by the Rev. D. 
L. Lander, who was then Pastor of the Malta Bend and Salt 
Springs churches, with which this one was thereafter grouped. 
There were thirty-two members at the beginning, gathered largely 
through a revival led bv ]\Ir. Lander. Several other members were 
soon added, but in 1881 the town was completely washed away, its 
site becoming the bed of the Missouri River. The church was 
therefore dissolved. 

LEXINGTOK 

The Lexington church, now in the Southern connection, has 
had an interesting history, which we have tried unsuccessfully to 
get some one there to narrate. It goes back to the ante bellum times 
of both civil and ecclesiastical history. It was organized about the 
time when the Old School and ^^"ew School controversies were at 



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their height in the East, but before that division had reached Mis- 
souri. The two Ministers, Dickson and Crawford, that effected 

the organization later took opposite sides in the divided denomi- 
nation. Judging from the name, Lexington Presbytery, which was 
adopted by one of the original Kew School Presbyteries of this 
Synod, we might infer that the sympathies of the church were 
then supposed to be with the New School, though we find it soon 
after and thenceforward identified with the Old School. Lexing- 
ton was in those days one of the most important towns in the 
State. The Presbyterians made their influence strongly felt there 
from their start, under such Pastors as Drs. J. L. Yantis, B. M. 
Hobson and J. A. Quarles. 

At the close of the Civil War came the Declaration and Tes- 
timony controversy in this Synod, in which the majority of the 
Lexington church took the D. and T. side. Forty-five members, 
however, preferred to remain with the General Assembly, and were 
organized in June, 1868, by Ministers W. L. Breckenridge and 
George Miller. It was then thought that there were room and 
people enough, and bright enough prospects for growth, to justify 
the existence of two Presbyterian churches. The property of the 
former organization was divided pro rata between its two suc- 
cessors. Each organization worked successfully for several years. 
But the hard times of the early seventies came on, instead of the 
expected growth of the town and its churches. The Southern 
church soon overshadowed its neighbor, and then absorbed it. 

The church in our connection was ministered to by J. W. Clark, 
1868-71, and J. H. Byers, 1871 ff. It furnished one candidate for 
the Ministry, W. H. Wieman, who afterward became Pastor of the 
church at Eich Hill. In the spring of 1878 a Committee that had 
been appointed to visit the Lexington church reported to the Pres- 
bjrtery of Osage, recommending that the church be dissolved, its 
members dismissed to the Southern church, and its property sold 
This action, however, was not immediately carried out. It took 
some time to carry out its details, the name of the church not being 
stricken from the roll of Osage Presbytery until April 13, 1881. 
The debts of the Northern church were all paid, and its house of 
worship, originally costing $10,000, was sold for $2,500, the balance 
remaining being turned over to the Southern church. The build- 
ing then became laiown as Wentworth Academy, a Presbyterian 
school being conducted there by Prof. B. L. Hobson (now of Mc- 
Cormick Theological Seminary) and others. The two organizations 
thus reunited have formed a strong, harmonious church. 

LITTLE OSAGE (BALLTOWK) 
As told elsewhere, upon the abandonment of the Harmony Mis- 
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labors among the Osage Indians, but thenceforward devoted their 
energies to the establishment and maintenance of churches among 
the whites. Aside from the church organized at the Harmony Mis- 
sion in 1822, the first, organization among the whites appears to 
have been that of Little Osage. The early history of this church is 
much like that of many others in those days in Missouri. Having 
been organized by New England people, and largely composed of 
those that had been brought up under Congregationalism, its first 
few years were characterized more by Congregational principles and 
methods than by those of the Presbyterian Church. Yet the mem- 
bers gradually abandoned their Congregational forms and substi- 
tuted Presbyterian forms instead, becoming identified with New 
School Presbyteries. 

The record of the original organization of the Little Osage 
church is as follows: "June 27th, 1835. Agreeable to previous 
notice, the people in this place assembled at the school house at 12 
o'clock, noon, to take into consideration the subject of organizing 
a church on Presbyterian or Congregational principles. Present, 
Kev. Nathaniel B. Dodge, from Boudinot Missionary Station, Kev. 
Amasa Jones from Harmony Mission Station, and Brethren Daniel 
H. Austin and Eichard Colby from Harmony Church. Introduced 
services by a sermon delivered by Eev. A. Jones, from Chron. 29:5. 
Articles of Faith and Covenant read. Candidates for admission 
to church called for. The following presented themselves: By 
letter, Wm. Modrell, Nathaniel B. Dodge, Jr., George Douglass, 
Elizabeth Douglass, Mary B. Dodge, Elvina G. Dodge. By exami- 
nation, Elizabeth Summers, 1st and 2d. The above members were 
accordingly organized into a church, by their publicly assenting 
to following Articles of Faith and Covenant: [12 good articles and 
good covenant.] Wm. Modrell was chosen Deacon and Nathaniel 
B. Dodge, Jr., Clerk." In this connection it may be an item of 
mournful interest to note that the first grave in the little ceme- 
tery established there was that of Clerk Dodge, who was killed 
by members of the very tribe of Indians among whom his father 
had been so long a devoted Missionary.* 

Under the Ministration of Mr. Dodge, the church continued 
as organized, until March 25, 1842. It had then grown to only 
eighteen members. On that date its record reads: "Met accord- 
ing to notice to consider expediency of adopting Presbytery form 
of Government. Members called upon to express their views. . . . 
Presbytery form of Government adopted, and church placed under 
care of the Harmony Presbytery. William Modrell and Josiah M. 
Austin chosen Elders." In this connection it continued until after 

*Mr. D. was one of a party that pursued some lawless Indians who had stolen stock. 
In the fiRht that ensued three of the Indians and Mr. D. were killed 800 militia-men 
were at once called down from Jackson County, but did more mischief in one week than 
the Indians did in twenty years. 



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the break up of the Presbytery of Osage, when, on August 19, 1859, 
it voted to join the Old School Presbytery. It remained in con- 
nection with the 0. S. Presbyteries of Lafayette and Southwest 
Missouri until the Keunion in 1870. Thereafter it gradually dis- 
appeared until about 1878, when it died on account of the re- 
moval of nearly all its members. They had no building after the 
oria^inal building was destroyed during the war. This organiza- 
tion was always supplied in connection with the Marmiton Church, 
How much it accomplished for good cannot now be told. Before 
the Civil War it reported at least one candidate for the Ministry. 
It is the burial place of at least two of the pioneer Missionaries, 
Dodge and Bradshaw. It is also the birthplace of one of the 
Ministers of this Presbytery, William Sickles, whose parents were 
long identified with that church, and later with that of Schell City. 

LITTLE TEBO. 

Benton County. Organized by James Gallaher. Dissolved and 
members went to Warsaw. Osage Presbytery, then Lafayetit\ 

LONE OAK. 

This church (sometimes called Double Branches), is the out- 
growth of the old Harmony Mission, established a few miles south 
of it on the Osage River in 1821. It has always had in its member- 
ship the descendants of several of the original Mission families. The 
old organization, formed June 12, 1846, was ministered to by the 
Rev. Wm. C. Requa. Its house of worship was burned during the 
Civil War, and its organization broken up. 

The present organization dates from Feb. 10, 1868. The first 
record in the Session book is: ^After sermon by Rev. S. G. Clark, 
from text Luke 2:49, the following persons were organized into a 
church, with Lone Oak as corporate name: William R. Thomas, Mary 
H. Thomas, Sarah A. Requa, Sarah J. Requa, Austin Requa and Wil- 
liam Requa. Austin Requa was elected Elder. S. G. Clark, Mis- 
sionary of District.^^ The church was supplied at different periods, 
usually only once a month, by S. G. Clark, Dr. Wm. C. Requa, G. W. 
Macmillan, J. P. Watkins, W. M. Reed, D. R Crockett, Josiah Thomp- 
son, T. J. May, Wm. Coleman, Lie. C. Lee Reynolds, J. C. Taylor 
and others. 

This is a country church, which in 1880 built in connection with 
the Methodists and the Grange a church building, with a hall above 
for the use of the Grange. This is located at Peru post-office. The 
membership has never been large, but usually able to supply the church 
with preaching once a month without outside assistance. A goix'i 
Sabbath-school has been maintained. The old missionary influence 
is still strongly felt, though most of the old families are now gone. 
"They rest from their labors and their works do follow them." 



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LOWRY CITY. 
The Lowry City cliurch. was organized by a Committee of Pres- 
bytery, consisting of Ministers W. M. Pocock, John B. Hill and W. M. 
N^ewton, Jan. 21, 1893. There were fifteen members, only four of 
them men. Several of them had been connected with the Westfield 
church, some nine miles north. Their first Supply was the Rev. 
W. M. ISTewton, who went there in December, 1893, and remained 
seven years. The following year they built a very neat frame house 
of worship, 26x50 feet, costing $1,650, of which the Board of Church 
Erection contributed $500, and outside friends $200. The church 
has had a gradual growth and a harmonious and useful history, in 
connection with that of Westfield, with which it as always been 
grouped. 

MALTA BEN'D. 

Of the organization of this church Synodical Missionary Allen 
wrote at the time : "A new church consisting of thirty members, 
with Wm. Lunbeck and Wm. H. Squairs as Ruling Elders^ was or- 
ganized at Malta Bend, Mo., May 16 (1875), by Revs J. W. Allen 
and J. F. Bruner. The population of this whole county (Saline) is 
thoroughly sandwiched with Presbyterians. Already there are nine 
church organizations, six of them in connection with the Southern 
Assembly, viz. : Miami, Olivet, Brownsville, Pisgah, Arrow Rock, 
Marshall. These churches enjoy the pastoral services of Revs. J. Bar- 
bee and B. H. Charles. In our connection there is one German church 
at J^ew Frankfort, to which Rev. H. Stauss ministers. * * * The 
Salt Springs and Malta Bend churches are but six miles apart and yet 
in two distinct neighborhoods. They now enjoy the pastoral care 
of Rev. J. F. Bruner, who entered the ministry only last year, at ma- 
ture age, having given the earlier part of his life to the practice of 
medicine and teaching. He brings into his work a ripe experience, 
which, coupled with his consecration and faithfulness, is already 
securing marked success.^^ Dr. Bruner remained about two years, 
at the close of which he wrote : *^When I came to Malta Bend there 
was not a single Presb5^terian in the place, and prejudice was strong 
against Presb)i;erianism. * * * This church and Salt Springs have 
added * * * forty-eight members, while here at Malta Bend we have 
erected and expect to dedicate the last Sunday of this month, one of 
the neatest Presbyterian churches in Missouri of its size, and all with- 
out a dollar of debt on it." Finished and furnished, the whole build- 
ing, 28x48 feet, cost less than $1,700. It was dedicated the third 
Sabbath in October, 1876, the sermon being by the Rev. Nathaniel 
Williams, of Iowa. A revival soon followed, resulting in several ad- 
ditions to the membership. 

For several months after the leaving of Dr. Bruner, the pulpit was 
supplied by Licentiate B. D. Luther. In 1879 the Rev David L. 
Lander came and was installed pastor. He remained until 1884, dur- 
ing which time the church reached its greatest prosperity. Before 
he left there had been several seasons of revival, the two churches in 



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the group assumed self support, and activity in every good work was 
very marked. "As a token of appreciation, the little struggling 
churches of Malta Bend and Salt Springs gave to their pastor on 
Christmas Day (1881) a purse of $166. Happy pastor, happy peo- 
ple V The Laynesville church was organized by Mr. Lander, and for 
a time was grouped with Malta Bend and Salt Springs. After the 
resignation of their pastor, on account of ill health, these churches 
remained vacant for some months, after which the work at Malta 
Bend was not for many years successfully revived. The only other 
settled minister there was the Rev. James Lafferty. For years after 
he left the church was vacant, and had but an occasional sermon. 
Most of the members moved away, and those remaining attended 
church at either Salt Springs or at the Saline church (Southern), 
four miles east. At last, after an absence of fifteen years, Mr. Lander 
returned, much to the delight of the remnant of the former charge. 
It was thought that he could resuscitate the organization, so long 
dormant. But after a year's hard work, he gave up the field as 
hopeless. 

Nothing seemed to be left but the building, which was in a good 
state of repair. But in the spring of 1900 another effort was made to 
revive the organization. Licentiate C. C. McKinney, a Middler in 
McCormick Seminary, was sent there and soon succeeded in securing 
good audiences and an increased membership. In the fall, at the 
urgent request of the churches of Malta Bend and Salt Springs, he 
consented to remain a year with them. In the spring of 1901, both 
churches requested his ordination and installation, which Presbytery 
heartily granted. Mr. McKinney is a grandson of the pioneer Mis- 
sionary, Seth Gr. Clark, so prominent in this Presbytery soon after the 
Civil War. 

MARMITON. 

The correct spelling of the name of this church is hard to ascer- 
tain. It is referred to in old records as Marmiton, Maumetan, Mar- 
mateau, and in a variety of other forms. It is sometimes called Big 
Drywood. No sketch of it has been found. It is known, however, 
to have been the direct outgrowth of the Harmony Mission. Its 
organizer was probably the Rev. N. B. Dodge. Its presbyterial 
connection was first with the Harmony and Osage Presbytery, then 
with the Presbytery of Lafayette, then with Southwest Missouri, and 
possibly last with Ozark. Just when it finally died is unknown. It 
is worthy of remembrance mainly as the church home of one of the 
early lay Missionaries to the 0 sages. 

Mrs. I. C. Sickles, formerly a member of the Little Osage church, 
with which that of Marmiton was always grouped, writes: "I am 
sorry there can be found no record of the Marmiton church, and I 
regret very much that I cannot find * * * a more satisfactory sketch 
of the life of Abram Redfield,* who was really the father and founder 

*A short sketch of Esq. Redfield is found in Brown's History of Vernon County. 



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of the Marmiton church. Abram Redfield came to that region from 
Union Mission in 1836, and settled near what is now known as Deer- 
field. He was a l!^ew Yorker by birth, a man of much above ordinary 
intelligence and of fine education, and one of the most saintly men 
I ever knew. I remember well visiting in his family when I was a 
little girl, when it was his custom on the Sabbath to hold religious 
services in his own house ; and when the weather and roads were bad, 
he would send a wagon round the neighborhood, sometimes making 
several trips, to gather the people in. Then he would superintend 
a Sabbath-school, and usually read a sermon. As he was a good 
reader, a fine talker and a splendid singer, the service was always 
edifying and much enjoyed by all.^' He died Dec. 8, 1862. Why 
could not many of our modern churches revive the good old custom of 
utilizing their Elders when they happen to be out of a Minister? 
There certainly are Elders who could do such work efficiently. 

MONTROSE. 

This church is largely the outgrowth of the old adobe church, 
called Deep water, organized by Dr. Amasa Jones in 1842. Dr. Jones 
was one of the original Missionaries that established Harmony Mis- 
sji)On in 1821. Both the old Deepwater church and that of Montrose 
had among their original members several of the old missionary fam- 
ilies. The Montrose church was organized in October, 1870, by the 
Rev. B. F. Powelson. A house of worship was erected at a cost of 
$1,400, seated some time later at a cost of $125, the sum granted by 
the Board of Church Erection for that purpose. The largest number 
of communicants ever reported for this church was forty-seven in 1881. 
It has been a difficult church to keep supplied, having been grouped 
with various other churches, seldom remaining long in the same group- 
ing. It has consequently had a different Supply almost every year, 
except when under the care of the Pastor-at-Large. The town is 
largely Roman Catholic. Another serious discouragement this church 
has had was quite unusual in character. A set of "come-outers,^^ led 
by a former Presbyterian Minister named O'Brien, held a series of 
meetings, lasting several weeks, with the avowed purpose of breaking 
up every church in town — a purpose that nearly succeeded. Through 
the efforts of Evangelists Railsback and (later) Watkins, a remnant 
was saved, the Sabbath school maintained, and hopes revived thai 
there might still be a useful existence. N'early all of the older mem- 
bers have left the vicinity. 

MORRISTOWN. 

See Freeman. 

NEW FRANKFORT. 

The only organization this Presbytery has had since the Civil War 
among the non-English speaking populations was that of New Frank- 



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fort. This church, originall}^ belonging to the Cumberland Presby- 
terians, petitioned to unite with the Presbytery of Osage. Apr, 20, 
1872, "the Committee to whom was referred the request of the Cum- 
berland German Church of New Frankfort report, That they have care- 
fully considered the request and inquired into the prospects of the 
church and the soundness of their faith, and recommend that their 
request be granted/^ It was naturally somewhat difficult to sup- 
ply this church with Cerman-speaking Ministers. Its only installed 
Pastor, the Eev. F. Van der Lippe (usually written without the Van 
der), remained less than two years. He was followed by the Eev. 
F. C. Schwartz in 1877. 

April 15, 1880, the Presbytery adopted the following report of a 
Committee it had previously appointed: "I visited the New Frank- 
fort church by appointment of Presbytery, and found that the church, 
by almost unanimous vote, had resolved to connect with the Gerniari 
Evangelical Association; that the minority made no opposition to the 
wishes of the majority. Your Committee recommended that the 
church refund to the Board of Church Erection the $200 received to 
aid in the erection of their house of worship, which has been done 
through J. W. Brown, a member of the Committee. The Board has 
released its claim, and we recommend that the church of New Frank- 
fort be dissolved and its name stricken from the roll, (signed) J. W. 
Allen, Chairman." 

NEVADA.* 

Nevada is the county seat of Vernon county, though not one of 
the oldest towns of that region. That county was long the home of 
the Osage Indians, among whom the Harmony Mission was established 
in the southern edge of the adjoining county of Bates in the fall of 
1821. The earliest white settlements of Vernon county were those 
of the Missionaries and their friends, by whom several churches were 
established before the Civil War. Those churches were connected with 
the New School branch of the Church, until its practical disruption in 
this region shortly before the War. The whole region then passed into 
the hands of the Old School church, by which after the War many ef- 
forts were made to revive the old churches and to establish new ones. 
So far as now discoverable, the first organization in Nevada City, as 
it was then called, was made by the Eev. W. E. Fulton, in Sept., i872. 
It consisted of nine members, who seem to have been unusually rich in 
officers, having had four Elders and one Deacon. This organization 
did not long survive, however, having been dissolved Apr. 13, 1876, 
after it had been transferred from the Presbytery of Ozark to that of 
Osage. The Declaration and Testimony party also formed an organi- 
zation there, which was likewise shortlived. 

On Feb. 20, 1878, an organization of 23 members was formed by 
the Eev. J. H. Byers, ten of the members coming from the Southern 

*After aU the rest of this book was in type, it was discovered that the sketch prepared 
of the Nevada church had in some way been lost. This sketch'is therefore hurriedly pre- 
pared, and not as complete as we would like to have made it. 



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church. A newspaper notice of the field, published a few weeks later, 
says : "Bro. Byers has been abundant in his labors since taking charge 
of this field — preached 33 sermons during February. As the result 
of a series of meetings held in Prosperity church (which is grouped in 
the same pastorate with Nevada) 12 were added on profession. There 
had been several conversions in IN'evada. They have an excellent 
school of over 70 scholars.^^ But though great things were expected 
of the field, it did not succeed at the start. 

When Dr. G-eorge Miller went to i^evada in 1883, he says it was 
an uninviting field, having only 44 members and a church building 
needing yet $2000 to complete it. "It was a forbidding outlook. 
Elder J. W. Cleland had great faith in the Lord, the church and me, 
and urged me to come, offering to obligate himself to see that I got 
$1200 a year, and that the building should be fully and handsomely 
ciquipped inside of one year. He was then a prosperous and leading 

<)usiness man of high standing, and filled his promise fully A 

Young People^s Society and a Ladies' Missionary Society were organ- 
ized. In the four and a half years of our pastorate one hundred and 
eighty members were aded, ninety of them on profession of faith; and 
the money raised aggregated nearly $10,000. We always thank the 
Lord and our colaborers in N'evada for the work done there." 

The results of the next few years' work there cannot now be ac- 
curately stated, as the Session Book has in some way been destroyed. 
The church has had a varied experience in the last twenty years, under 
several Pastors. The present Pastor, Dr. J. H. Miller, who began his 
labors there in 1898, has been quite successful in his work. 



OLIVE BRANCH. 

See Creighton. 



OSCEOLA. 

The Presb3^terian church of Osceola in its present form post- 
dates the Civil War. It is the outgrowth, however, of an organiza - 
tion formed there many years ago, as will be seen by the following 
first entry in the original record book of the old organization: "O-i 
the removal of the Osage Indians beyond the bounds of the State of 
Missouri, the Missionaries of the A. B. C. F. M. still remained within 
its borders. As the whites came in to possess the land, these Mis- 
sionaries preached in the destitute places and watched over the sheep 



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scattered in the wilderness. In 1842 there were found to be eight 
members of distant churches in this region who desired to unite them- 
selves together for mutual fellowship in the Lord. On the first Sab- 
bath of March, by previous appointment, Eev. Amasa Jones, ac- 
companied by Kev. E. P. N"oel, met" — the eight, and organized them 
into a Presbyterian church. .The first Elders were Samuel W. Harris 
and Robert Osborn. The original record book is still in existence, 
but has not been in the hands of the compiler of this sketch. 

From other sources it is learned that Jones had had yaany a 
^^previous appointment" there. He, who havl been among the orig- 
inal Mission band that established Harmony Mission in 1821, became 
a Home Missionary by appointment 'ff ihe American Home Mission- 
ary Society, April 25, 1836. Hisi first report shows that he labored 
one quarter time ^''at the mouth of the Sac Eiver," before there was 
much of a settlement there. He con tinned preaching there Avith more 
or less regularity until a year after the organization, when the Rev. 
Isaac B. Ricketts took charge of the Osceola and Weaubleau churches. 
The Rev. E. P. Noel, who assisted at the organization at Osceola, was 
preaching in the Weaubleau church at that time. -Mr. Ricketts took 
charge March 1, 1843, and seems to have remained lomo five year,-. 
During his last year there Mr. Ricketts wrote : "This has been a sea- 
son of great worldly mindedness ; the gold fever has ra-^ed greatly in 
this part of the world, and consequently religion has been at a low 
ebb. There was great alarm among the people when 'the pestilence 
that walketh in darkness and destruction that wasteth at noonday' were 
sweeping off their hundreds and thousands * * * ; but when the judg- 
ments of God were in the land, there were not many, it seems, that 
learned righteousness." Many similar references to the California 
gold excitement and to the cholera season of 1849 are found in the cor- 
respondence of the American Home Missionary Society. 

In 1849 the Rev. Jos. Y. Barks, then recently ordained at Warsaw, 
took charge of the Osceola church in connection with that at Warsaw, 
where he lived. He remained two years. He made quite an im- 
pression on the people, such that for years after iho War he was 
"spoken of with the greatest respect by the older residents." He 
probably supplied the church again for alDOut a year in 1859. In the 
fall of 1851 the Rev. L. R. Morrison, of Cross Timbers church in 
Hickory county, began preaching at Osceola, half time, for two years. 

Some time in 1854 the Rev. 0. W. Harlan began preaching in 
Osceola. He was then a Licentiate. He was not ordained until the 
spring of 1856. He had charge of the Osceola church, at first for 
half time, until 1858. The next year he had charge of the Osagd 
Academy at Osceola. He was suppported partly by the Southern Aid 
Society, partly by the Missouri Home Missionary Society, and partly 
by the church. He found a church of only twenty members, though 
. with an average attendance of 200 to 300 persons at each service. 
The only other denomination in town, the Southern Methodist, al- 
ternated with the Presbyterians in the use of the same house of wor- 



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ship. In 1856 Mr. Harlan wrote : "I preach regularly in this place 
every alternate Sabbath^ twice to the white and once to the colored 
congregation, at a point seven miles southwest of town, one Sabbath 
each month; the remaining Sabbath at different points." A prayer- 
meeting was maintained, though with difficulty, the Pastor not always 
being able to get over the Sac River from his boarding-place at Col. 
Waldo's to the church. The Sabbath-school was a union school with 
the Southern Methodists, who owned the church building. 

In this church, as in every other in Missouri in those days, the 
slavery question had its bearing on every other interest. Mr. Harlan 
replied to a question : "I am a slave-holder, having become one by in- 
heritance." That fact prevented the church from receiving further 
aid from the" American Home Missionary Society, or from the Mis- 
souri Home Missionary Society, auxiliary to it. Like nearly every 
other church in this part of the State, this church and its Minister 
decided to go into the Old School denomination (Kov. 13, 1858). 
September 16, 1859, both were received into the Presbytery of La- 
fayette. Mr. Harlan soon left, the War came on, the church dis- 
appeared. Several slaves had been members of the church. One in- 
teresting record in this connection was: "David, colored servant of 
. . . . , having expressed the desire to unite with the church, though 
without a letter from the Presbyterian church in Tennessee, of which 
he was a member, the proof from other sources that he sustained the 
character not only of an earnest Christian, but of a faithful preacher 
of the Gospel being satisfactory, he was received into our fellowship." 
As Dr. Milner remarks, "Does pretty well for a chattel !" 

September 22, 1861, the town was burned by the noted Jim Lane. 
We hear nothing more of the old church. September 14, 1867, the 
Rev. John M. Brown, the pioneer missionary of southwest Missouri 
after the War, organized a new church, consisting of only seven mem- 
bers. G. Whitelaw Shield, late an Elder in the Appleton City church, 
now an Elder in the First Presbyterian church of Kansas City, was 
elected Elder. When Mr. Brown came again the next month, five more 
members were admitted. Of these twelve, only two had been members 
of the former organization. , 

The little band worshiped in the Court House for the first few 
years, until able to secure a building of their own. After Mr. 
Brown, their first Minister was the Rev. Duncan C. Milner, then just 
from the Seminary, one of a band of ten young men ordained at the 
meeting of Synod, October 4, 1868. He began work in Osceola N'ov. 
28 following. Under his ministry a revival occurred, and it was de- 
cided to build a brick house of worship, which was soon after finished 
with the exception of the belfry and seats. Of this house the his- 
tory of Henry and St. Clair counties (1883) says: 

"The dedication (1871) was by the Rev. C. H. Dunlap, of Se- . 
dalia, whose eloquence and impressive manners caused deep feel- 
ing throughout the ceremony. He took the following for his text. 



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being the first verse of the 122d Psalm: 'And I was glad when they 
said unto me, Let us go up into the house of the Lord/ Some items 
concerning the rise and progress of this building may not prove unin- 
teresting to our readers. The subscription paper was first started by 
the Eev. J. M. Brown * * * over three years [before] . Two lots were 
kindly donated by the Hon. Waldo P. Johnson, three lots purchased 
by extra subscription, and the cornerstone of the building was laid 
in 1870. The original cost of the building, which is 38x56, together 
with the current value of the lots, makes the entire church property 
worth about $4,500.* This building was the first church edifice com- 
pleted since the War. Its interior arrangements are comfortable and 
pleasant, and its exterior neat and attractive.''^ 

Like many others this church suffered severely during the hard 
times of 1873ff. Not until it obtained an installed Pastor did it 
succeed in making much progress.* Oct. 30, 1882, the Eev. J. F. Wat- 
kins, who had been installed the night before over the church at 
Brownington, was installed over that of Osceola also. He had pre- 
viously supplied the church from 1873-5, and again from 1879 on. 
Under his ministry there was prosperity, material and sniritual; the 
church nearly quadruplinsr its membership and rebuilding and en- 
larging its house of worship at a cost of about $4,000. There was, 
however, a long-protracted case of discipline. Its only other installed 
Pastors have been H. C. Keeley, ^87-8, and J. Twyman Boyer, S.S. 
and P., 1896-1900. Though throughout almost its entire existence this 
church has enjoyed but a part of its Minister's time, and has suffered 
possibly more than any other in the Presbytery from removals, it has 
sustained its various Christian activities with commendable zeal and 
fidelity. The Eev. Henry A. Brown served as Stated Supply 1900- 
1901. 

OTTEEVILLE. 

The Eev. C. Y.' Monfort organized the Otterville church with 
eight members, July 27, 1867. J. D. Strain was elected Euling Elder. 
Before the close of the year there were nineteen additions. But early 
the next year an emigration commenced that took away most of the 
members. Still by the aid of a grant of $500 from the Board of Church 
Extension, the little band managed to get a neat building enclosed by 
the following October. The next year others removed and one died, 
leaving only five members on the first of October, 1868. To Elder 
Strain is due the credit for nearly all the work both physical and 
spiritual that was done. In October, 1868, the Eev. A. J. Johnson 
took charge. The church was dedicated the following March. After 
Mr. Johnson left a few services were held by Mr. Alexander Walker, 
then a Licentiate of the English Presbyterian Church, who had come 
to this country for his health and settled on a farm near Otterville. 
He did not remain long as the Tipton church extended to him a call 
at the next meeting after he was ordained by request of the Otterville 

*$800 from the Board of Church Erection. 

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people. There seems to have been no further stated preaching in 
Otterville. 

September 10, 1874, a Committee of Investigation reported to 
Presbytery "That, as onr organization at Otterville has for the most 
part united with the Cumberland Presbyterian church, we do recom- 
mend that it be dissolved, and its name stricken from the roll; and 
that the Committee be continued to act in concert with the remaining 
Elder in settling up any remaining debts, and in selling the church 
edifice/' Mr. Walker was made a Committee to sell the building. 
In the spring of 1877 he reported the receipt of $71 from the sale 
of the property and a note of $179 for the balance. The final report 
of the Committee was made September 10, 1879: "The balance due 
has been collected and transmitted to Dr. Wilson of the Board of 
Church Erection, less the necessary expenses." The building was 
bought by the Baptists. • 

PAPIIsrSVILLE. 

This church, sometimes called Prairie City church, was organ- 
ized very near the site of the old Harmony Mission, by the Eev. S. G. 
Clark, about 1867, with seven or eight members. It was supposed that 
a railroad was about to pass through the town. Mr. Clark supplied 
the church a short time, as did also the Eev. W. M. ISTewton, then 
located at Appleton City. The final record in the Minutes of 
Presbytery concerning this church is: "The Special Committee ap- 
pointed at the last meetiuo- of Presbytery to visit the church of Papins- 
ville report, ^That we visited this church, and found that the 0. S., 
or Declaration and Testimony church, have taken possession of the 
ground, and have built a house of worship, and have a membership of 
about twenty. Only six or eight of our church members are on the 
ground; and all of these, excepting one man whom we were unable 
to visit, are working with the 0. S. church, and are regarded as mem- 
bers of it. The Committee recommend that the church be stricken 
from our roll of churches, and that the Stated Clerk be instructed 
to grant letters of dismission to any of said members." Eeport 
adopted, 

PLEASANT HILL. 

It is a matter of surprise to many people that there are two 
Presbyterian churches in a town of the size of Pleasant Hill, and that 
though worshipping together for many years, thev have not seen fit 
to re-unite and form one church as at first. The Presbytery of Kan- 
sas City even once passed a vote to dissolve the church in the N'orthern 
connection and urge its members to unite with the Southern church; 
but at the next meeting of the Presbytery representatives from both 
churches appeared and requested the reinstatement of the church, and 
that they be permitted to continue the old order of things. The full 
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but can be pretty accurately seen from the following sketch, compiled 
from a great variety of sources. 

The early history of the church was written in January, 1861, by 
its first installed Pastor, the Eev. Geo. Miller, who added a supple- 
ment to it nine years later. From this manuscript sketch we learn 
that the first Presbyterian family that settled in or near the town 
of Pleasant Hill was that of Benjamin Duncan, a Kentuckian, who 
came in 1843. He died the following year. His family, with those 
of the Copelands and Boswells who came in 1844, the first year the 
public lands were put on the market, were among the original mem- 
bers of the church. Up to 1851 these families were seldom visited 
by Ministers of their own denomination. At the spring meeting of 
the Presbytery of Upper Missouri, 1851, Ministers Symington and 
Allto, and Elders Moseby Grant and James Patton were appointed 
a Committee to organize a church at Pleasant Hill, which they did in 
July following, with fifteen members, seven of them men. 

This original organization seems to have been ministered to at 
irregular intervals by E. S. Symington, T. A. Bracken and others 
until 1853 when Mr. Symington moved to Pleasant Hill and divided 
his services between the church there and that of Westport, which he 
had organized about the same time as this one. The first revival came 
in December, 1856, and January following, when Mr. Symington was 
assisted in the services by Messrs. Coulter and Bracken. About that 
time the congregation was making an effort to build its first house 
of worship, a brick, 40 by 60 feet. The summer following, Mr. 
Symington removed to Westport. In January, 1858, the Eev. Jas. 
T. Lapsley began supplying the church and had the joy to receive a 
gracious outpouring of the Spirit in October following, at which 
time he was assisted bv Messrs. Bracken and Symington in a series of 
meetings, resulting in thirty-nine additions to the membership and 
a great strengthening of the church. Mr. Lapsley was then called 
to the pastorate, but, though he remained till March, 1860, he was 
not installed. In almost the last month of his ministration another 
revival occurred, resulting in fifty-nine additions to the membership. 

In June, 1860, George Miller, then a Licentiate of the Presbytery 
of Transylvania, began his labors in the church of Pleasant Hill, 
over which he was ordained and installed November 4 of that year, 
bv the Presbytery of Lafayette to which the church now belonged. 
The church building was then sufficiently finished to be comfortable, 
though burdened with a debt of $400. Mr. Miller continued to preach 
to this church until the fall of 1862, when, owing to the terrible 
persecution to which he was subjected on account of his adherence to 
the cause of the Union, he went to Kansas City. The church had 
no regular preaching thereafter till the fall of 1865, when Mr. Miller 
returned, and served it until the spring of 1868, when he was laid aside 
on account of ill health. The experiences of the Pastor during those 



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troubled years are related in part in his own graphic way in the book 
he published shortly before his death, entitled Missouri's Memorable 
Decade. 

It was during the second stay of Dr. Miller at Pleasant Hill that 
the division of the Old School Church in this State took place. So far 
as this Presbytery was concerned, the fight took place mainly around 
him and his church. It is a long story, briefly summed up by him- 
self in the Annals of Kansas City Presbytery, 1888, p. 47, as follows : 
^^In August, 1865, I received, without solicitation or previous knowl- 
edge, a commission from the Board of Home Missions in Philadelphia 
urging me to return to this Presbytery and Tiold the field for our 
Church.' I was still a member of the Presbytery and legal Pastor of 
the Pleasant Hill church. I came, feelmg that a great principle 
and a grand position must be maintained, and that Providence -had 
laid upon me their maintenance. The asperities of that struggle I 
sincerely regret; but for the results I to-day humbly thank God, as 
I believe they will ever redound to His glory. The effort to dislodge 
me from my pulpit was strong and bitter, and every inch of ground 
was bitterly resisted. In August, 1866, the Presbytery met in Pleasant 
Hill. It refused to receive George Eraser and Charles Sturdevant, 
because they avowed their readiness to enforce the last Assembly's 
^ipso facto order' against the signers of the paper known as the T3ec- 
laration and Testimony.' The order dissolving my pastoral relation 
was then passed. I held my ground by appeal to the S3^nod. When 
S^Tiod met in October, it divided; and so this aspect of the struggle 
ended.^' 

The Pleasant Hill church also divided. Only fourteen of the 
former members sided with the Pastor. A large portion of the con- 
gregation, including manv influential members, withdrew, and were 
organized. February 10, 1867. by the Eev. J. B. Harbison, as the 
^Tirst Presbyterian Church of Pleasant Hill." They began with fifty- 
three members. Mr. Harbison supplied their pulpit until !N"ovember 
29, 1867, when the Eev, R. S. Symington was recalled to the pastorate. 
Dr. S., writing of this years afterward, says: "Pleasant Hill had 
now grown to a city of 6,000 inhabitants, and it was thought that two 
Presb^d^erian Churches could be sustained there. My old friends gave 
me a call to the second [sic] Presbyterian Church. I accepted the 
call. We rented a hall, and worshipped in it until our church was 
built." 

The two churches were thus formed in the place of the one. 
The property of the old organization was by mutual agreement sold 
at auction, and the proceeds equallv divided. The new organization 
succeeded in getting a handsome frame church building erected and 
neatly furnished in the year 1869, at a cost of $6,250, all paid for. 
The same year the older organization, thenceforth known as "The 
Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church," began the erection of a brick 



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church building, toward which they received $800 from the Board of 
the Church Erection Fund. 

The church which remained in our connection was ministered to 
in 1869 and 1870 by the venerable Dr. W. L. Breckenridge ; from 1870 
to 1872 by its former Pastor, the Eev. J. T. Lapsley; and from 1873 
to 1876 by the Rev. Wni. Coleman. When the latter left, he lodged 
a claim with the Presbytery for back salary, part of which was voted 
to him by the Presbytery, twenty-one years later, out of the proceeds 
of the sale of the abandoned church building! A similar claim for 
$996.63, adjudged by the Presbytery of Lafayette as due the Eev. 
George Miller, was not then considered; and the Board of Church 
Erection to whom the church had forwarded the entire proceeds of 
their sale of their property listened to the request of the Presbytery, 
and returned the whole amount to Mr. Coleman. For the next two 
years the two churches worshipped together under the ministry of 
the Rev. J. L. Caldwell, who had been called by the new organization, 
which meanwhile had gone into the Southern connection. He was 
succeeded by the Rev. A. W. Colver of the Northern church for some- 
thing over a year. The next Minister was the Rev. H. D. Clark, a 
Methodist, who was at the time, as some of his predecessors in the 
Presbyterian pulpit had been, the Principal of the Public Schools of 
the town. In 1879, the churches again worshipped apart, the Northern 
under the ministry of the Rev. A. T. Robertson, and the Southern 
under that of the Rev. J. M. Chaney. Since 1883 the churches 
have worshipped together (though retaining their separate organi- 
zations), under various Ministers of the Southern connection. 

In' 1898, the propertv of the Northern church, which had been 
unused for several years and had become much out of repair, was 
sold and the proceeds disposed of as mentioned above. The Southern 
church sold their old property about the same time, tore down their 
old building and erected a convenient modern building in a more 
desirable location. The Southern church, it is scarcely necessary to 
add, is now much the stronger of the two. 

P. S. At the spring meeting of Presbytery, 1901, this historic 
organization having dwindled to six members, without officers or 
property, was dissolved. Its members were dismissed to the Southern 
church. 

PLEASANT PRAIRIE. 

An extended notice of the organization of this church appeared 
in the St. Louis Evangelist of January, 1880, from which it is learned 
that "according to previous appointment, and by order of the Presby- 
tery of Osage, Revs. H. M. Shockley and S. W. Mitchell and Elder 
John Neil, Sen., met with the people at West Point school house, in 
White township, Benton County, Missouri, on Saturday, November 
7, 1879, for the purpose of organizing a Presbyterian Church." 



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Eleven persons entered into the organization, six men and five women, 
all heads of families except one, another being welcomed at the 
communion service on the following Sabbath. John Neil, Jr., and 
David Ewart were the Elders installed. The new organization was 
grouped with those of Sunny Side, ten miles south, and Windsor, 
seven miles northwest, under the care of the Eev. S. W. Mitchell. 
The next year a church building was erected. After two or three 
years this church appears vacant, and finally disappeared from the 
roll of Presbytery, April 9, 1884. 

POST OAK. 

Organized by Christopher Bradshaw, in Henry County, about 
1846, with -nine members. Osage Presbytery. Soon disappeared. 
Possibly the same as some church known by another name. 

PROSPEEITY. 

On the Minutes of Presbytery there is no record of the organi- 
zation or enrollment of this church. The first mention of it on the 
records is: "The Church of Prosperity was recommended to the 
Board of Church Erection for aid to the amount of $300." (Sep- 
tember 15, 1875.) The organization had probably been arranged for 
and effected by the Presbytery of Ozark about the time of the order 
of Synod transferring the churches of Vernon County from Ozark 
to Osage Presbytery in the fall of 1874. From a notice in the St. 
Louis Evangelist of March, 1875 we gain about all that can now be 
discovered about its early days: "Prosperity is the name given to 
a Presbyterian Church in the southern part of Vernon County, Mis- 
souri, which was organized the fifth day of July last with seventeen 
members. The name is significant of its history. Twenty-seven per- 
sons have been added since November last, many of them heads of 
families, and a large proportion of them young men. This church 
is under the pastoral care of Eev. A. W. Milster of Nevada City. He 
was followed for a few months by the Eev. J. G. Venable. Soon 
after the Eev. J. H. Byers took charge of the field, it appears that 
as the result ot a series of meetings held in February, 1878, twelve 
persons were admitted to membership on profession of faith. Its only 
other regular Supplies seem to have been W. M. Eeed and B. Hoffman, 
neither of whom remained many months, and T. S. Douglas, who 
was there some years. The name of the church was stricken from 
the roll of Presbytery, April 12, 1888. 

PEOVIDENCE. 

This church seems to have had an encouraging start, but that 
is about all. In the St. Louis Evangelist for December 13, 1883 ap- 



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pears this notice : "Schell City. . . . Our quarterly communion 
was postponed till next Sabbath (December 9}^, owing to special 
interest at a Mission point nine miles south of Schell City, where 
we have been laboring for the past nine months, on the forenoons 
of Sabbaths belonging to Schell City. Protracted services were held 
for one week and a half. Deep interest was manifested from the 
first. Evidently God^s answer to earnest and long continued prayer, 
sixteen were born again of the Spirit, and many others are still 
seeking salvation. A church of twenty-one members was organized 
at this point on Friday evening (November 30, 1883.^^) 

There is no record on the Minutes of Presbytery concerning the 
enrollment of this orgaaization ; but for some years thereafter ap- 
pears the name of the Providence church, otherwise unexplained, as 
one of a group of churches adjacent to Schell City. The organization 
soon dwindled away. Its name was removed from the roll of Presby- 
tery, April 14, 1887. 

EAYMOEE. 

The Session book shows that the Paymore church was organized 
November 12, 1871, by the Eev. Dr. W. L. Breckenridge, with eleven 
members, four male and seven female, who were joined apparently 
the same day by four others, two men and two women. The name 
chosen was Ebenezer, which was retained until changed by Pres- 
bytery,, September 14, 1881, to Eaymore. Services were held in the 
railroad depot, where in the following year the Eev. George Miller 
held a series of meetings resulting in several additions and the start- 
ing of the church on its career of prosperity. "In 1875, Mr. Miller 
secured from the Board of Church Erection the transfer of their 
mortgage from Kingsville church to Eaymore, and permission to 
remove the building to Eaymore. The energetic Eaymore people 
went down and cut the building into sections, placed it on cars, and 
carried it to Eaymore and set it up." This was the first church 
building in the town. 

For several years the church was irregularly supplied, usually 
by persons that were not members of Presbytery. In 1879, the Eben- 
ezer church was among those that petitioned for the ordination of 
Lie. A. T. Eobertson. He had received a unanimous call from the 
three churches of Pleasant Hill, Greenwood and Eaymore, and be- 
gun his work among them in May. These three churches then cut 
loose from Home Mission aid. His good work there told, as will be 
seen from this summary of his labors at the close of three years : 
"During a series of meetings in which the Pastor, Eev. A. T. Eobert- 
son, was profitably assisted by Eev. T. H. Allin, the members were 
much revived, and thirty-four were added to the church, twenty-five 
of them on profession of faith. This church, which was organized a 



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few years ago by Dr. Wm. L. Breekenridge, of blessed memory, has 
grown steadily from the first. During the present pastorate of three 
years at everj^ communion season, with perhaps one exception, there 
have been at least one or two accessions to its membership. As there 
were but fifty-seven members until this recent revival, and as the 
church is away out here on the prairie, it might naturally be supposed 
that it is receiving aid from the Board of Home Missions. But, no, it 
has not received a cent during the last three years. But on the con- 
trary, during these three years, it has annually given something to 
the aid of each Board of the Church. . . . About $5 per mem- 
ber, in all, is contributed annually to these objects by this little 
church." 

For a few years the church grew rapidly under the ministrations 
of Ministers Josiah Thompson and C. P. Blayney. Then came Evange- 
list L. Eailsback, whose meetings resulted in large accessions to the 
membership. He told them at the close of his services that they 
much needed a resident Pastor, and recommended that they send for 
the Rev. Wm. M. Newton, formerly of this Presbytery, then laboring 
in Nebraska. Mr. Newton began February 1, 1886, was soon in- 
stalled, and remained Pastor till November 20, 1893. His work 
was constantly fruitful and highly appreciated. A deep impression 
was made on the young people, an excellent Sabbath school was sus- 
tained, strong Missionary spirit was noticeable, a parsonage was built, 
and all departments of church life healthily active. The church, 
however, became much weakened by removals, and after sharing its 
Pastor for a while with the Creighton church, was pastorless for sev- 
eral months. 

November 1, 1894, the veteran Missionary, Rev. Seth G-. Clark, 
who had organized so many churches in this region at the close of the 
war, settled among them, and assisted them to secure their beautiful 
house of worship. He remained about eighteen months, until the 
infirmities of age at last compelled him to give up active work. 
Under him and his successor, ths Rev. M. E. Krotzer, the church again 
grew, and resumed its wonted Christian activities. Mr. K. remained 
only about two years, since which time the church has been accept- 
(ibly and efficiently supplied with preaching by one of its own Elders, 
Mr. J. E. Stevenson, long the Superintendent of its Sabbath school, 
the leader of its choir, the teacher of its Bible class, and the assistant 
of various Evangelists in conducting their singing. Mr. Stevenson 
was ordained to the full work of the ministry, June 1, 1900. 

RICH HILL. 

Soon after the town of Rich Hill was begun a few Presbyterians 
there sought the establishement of a Presbyterian church among them. 
In the fall of 1880 Presbytery appointed Ministers W. M. Newton 



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and E. H. Jackson and Elder A. D. Taylor of Butler a Committee 
to organize a churcli at Rich Hill, "whenever in their judgment the 
way is clear." The next spring the Committee reported "that they 
visited Rich Hill in December, took the first steps toward organizing 
a church, and committed the completion of the work to Rev. S. Gr. 
Clark, who from that time took charge of the work at that place, 
and has since completed the organization. The church now numbers 
ten members, one Ruling Elder apd a Deacon. The name of the 
Elder is F. H. Pruden; the name of the Deacon is John Brand." 
The organization occurred March 20, 1881. The incorporation fol- 
lowed on July 28. A Building Committee was appointed in August. 
In the course of a few months they had erected a brick house of 
worship, with a tower, a 1,000 pound bell, a main room 46 by 32 feet, 
and a prayer meeting room 31 by 16, that could be thrown into the 
main room when necessary. The cost was about $5,000, of which 
$600 came from the Board of Church Erection. 

Mr. Clark supplied the church two years. Then came Lie. Wm. 
H. Wieman, direct from Lane Seminary. He was ordained September 
13, 1883 and installed Pastor in May following, remaining until July, 
1886. During his pastorate the church grew, in spite of the fact that 
a tornado completely wrecked the church building. It was rebuilt 
at once, the entire interior being thrown into one room. During the 
short pastorate of the Rev. J. F. Watkins there were many additions, 
followed by a steady growth under the Rev. A. McDougall. July 11, 
1889 began one of the longer pastorates in the Presbytery^s history, 
when the Rev. J. H. Miller, D. D., was installed Pastor. He re- 
mained till December, 1898. His ministrations bore steady fruit, 
there being constant accessions and several seasons of revival, no- 
tably during the last year of his stay. The best Sabbath school in 
the city was maintained under the superintendence of Elder F. E. 
Kellogg. The children of the Sabbath school prayed and gathered 
money to build a primary room of their own, which they finally ob- 
tained at a cost of $450 in 1892. The church also owns a parsonage 
on the adjoining lot. 

. The present pastorate began with the coming of William B. 
Chancellor from McCormick Seminary in May, 1899. He was or 
dained and installed Pastor at Rich Hill, June 8, 1899. 

ROCKYILLE. 

September 14, 1881, Ministers S. Gr. Clark and R. H. Jackson 
and Elder A. D. Taylor were appointed a Committee to organize at 
Rockville, "if the way be clear." At the next meeting of Presbytery 
they presented this interesting report: "Your Committee to visit 
Rockville in Bates County, Missouri, and organize a church if the way 
be open report that two of the Committee, Revs. Clark and Jackson, 



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met on January 39 and discharged this duty. They organized a 
church, taking the name of ^the First Church of Rockville/ On the 
day appointed seventeen candidates appeared for an organization, 
eleven with letters and six by profession. Messrs. J. D. Strain and 
Peter Outcalt, being Elders, were elected and installed over this 
infant church. Your Committee continued religious services through 
eighteen days, closing with a membership of thirty-seven, twelve of 
these by letter, and twenty-five on profession of their faith. Thirteen 
of the latter were baptized.^' Mr. Clark continued to minister 
to this flock some three years, followed by the Rev. T. S. Douglass, 
'85-'88; and by the Rev. W. E. Yoss for a few months, about 1891. 
On the latter's recommendation the name of the Rockville Church 
was stricken from the roll of Presbytery, April 6, 1893. 

SALEM. (HENRY COUNTY.) 

This church was reported to the N. S. Synod of 1843 as organized 
during the year. Its first Supply was A. Jones. Then came Christo- 
pher Bradshaw, who entertained Synod there in 1845, an interesting 
account of which appears among Dr. Leighton's reminiscences iii- 
the Minutes of the Semi-Centennial Session of the Synod, 1882. Its 
next Supply was William H. Smith, under whose ministrations a 
better building was obtained, with the assistance of the Missouri 
Church Erection Fund. Like most of the churches of Osage Presby- 
tery, this one withdrew from the New School after the difficulties of 
1857, and became identified with the Old School Presbytery of La- 
fayette. It became disbanded during the Civil War. 

SALEM. (PETTIS COUNTY.) 

This church is located about five miles northwest of Lamonte 
and seven and one-half northeast of Knob Noster. September 15, 
1880, in connection with a request for the dissolution of the church 
at Lamonte, the Rev. T. H. AUin requested leave to organize a church 
at this point. The Rev. J. W. Allen, Synodical Missionary, together 
with T. H. AUin, D. L. Lander and Elders S. T. Mahin and P. 
Stringfield were appointed a Committee to organize. The next spring 
the Committee reported: "Our Chairman failed to report in person 
at the appointed time ; the remaining members of the Committee 
proceeded with the work as best they could. Preparatory services 
were held during the second week in October, the Gospel being 
preached each evening. On Sabbath morning, October 10, after ser- 
vice, twenty-five persons were organized into a church according 
to the Presbyterian Confession of Faith and Form of Government. 
Fourteen of these presented letters from other churches, and eleven 
were added on examination. Two Elders, P. Stringfield and L. A. 



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Byers, were elected and installed. Salem was the name chosen for the 
church. Your Committee would recommend that the new organiza- 
tion be added to our roll of churches.^^ The next entry is: "The 
Church of Salem asked Presbytery, through the Committee on Church 
Erection, to endorse their application to the Board of Church Erec- 
tion for aid in the amount of $300 additional to what they may 
receive from the sale of the church property in Lamonte. The re- 
quest was granted by ballot." A good church building was thus 
early secured, and the services of the Minister at Knob Noster, with 
which the Salem church has been grouped from the first. Its mem- 
bership has always been small, and recently growing smaller, on ac- 
count of removals. There has been no regular preaching there for 
several months past. The field having been virtually abandoned, Pres- 
bytery in the spring of 1901 requested the Board of the Church 
Erection Fund to give the seats (which are of oak, well made) to the 
Knob Noster church, and instructed its Trustees to try to sell the 
building and ground. 

SALT SPEINGS. 

At the thirtieth anniversary of the organization of the Salt 
Springs church, a historical sketch was read by Elder J. C. Keithley, 
from which liberal extracts will be made below. He was the only one 
that had been a member of the church from the first. He said: 
"On the 6th day of June, 1869, a Presbyterian church was organized 
by the Eev. J. W. Clark, of Lexington, Mo., assisted by his Elder, 
Mr. Eobert Taylor, consisting of fifteen persons. . . . The Elders 
chosen were W. H. Wade, C. K. Brandon and J. C. Keithley; Deacons, 
J. W. Brown and Milton E. Seal. This church was organized at 
Malta Bend, and was at first called Concord church. Its place of 
meeting was Salt Springs school house, until the 12th day of May, 
1872. . . . The church now consisted of thirty-five members, 
and the Eev. J. W. Clark was our Minister. January 8, 1871, J. 
W. Brown and J. C. Brandon were elected Elders; and John W. 
Layne, Jas. A. Orr and Albert G-. Jones were elected Deacons. The 
church now began to think of building a house of worship. A meet- 
ing was held at the school house. ... A Building Committee 
was chosen. . . . August 21, 1871, the Committee chose a site 
for the church on the northeast corner of J. W. Brown^s land of one- 
half acre. ... A church building of Gothic style was adopted, 
and it was resolved that we "arise and build. . . . The Commit- 
tee called for volunteers to do the hauling free of charge. Thus 
fifty loads of rock were hauled two and one-half miles from Yaughn^s 
quarry; 19 loads of sand from Eock Creek, 12 miles; 31 loads of 
lumber from Malta Bend, 10 miles; 20 loads of water; 8 loads of 
building material from Marshall, 10 miles; 4 loads from Miami, 18 



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miles; 6 loads of furniture from Malta Bend Landing; 133 loads 
in all^ the cost of which, if paid for in money would have been $300. 
J. W. Layne reported that he saved $60 in the purchase of the lumber, 
and $37.50 in the freight; making a tQtal saving of $397.50 on the 
building. . . . The ladies of the congregation gave a festival, at 
which $135 were realized. . . . The amounts contributed by dif- 
ferent churches and beliefs were as follows : Presbyterians $2,095.50 
(including $500 from the Board of Church Erection) ; outsiders and 
non-professors, $199.60; Missionary Baptists, $40; Old School Bap- 
tists, $35; one Catholic gave $10— total $2,380.10. Savings on 
hauling, lumber and freight, $397.50. Total, $2,777.60. The church 
was completed about the first of May, 1872, and dedicated on the 12th 
by the Eev. Timothy Hill, D. D., of Kansas City.'' 

Of this church. Dr. Hill wrote in his diary: "May 11. Preached 
the first sermon in the new church. May 12. Install J. W. Clark. 
The Committee all failed, and I dedicated the church. After the 
sermon the Communion was observed. At 4 the installation came off. 
I went through the whole alone." 

Mr. K's. narrative continues: "Eev. J. W. Clark served the 
church for four years; was an excellent man and a good preacher. 
He was succeeded by the Eev. Joshua Barbee [Southern Presb.] in 
1873, who continued to serve very acceptably, off and on, for twenty- 
five years. Indeed, the church looks to him as a father of Tsreal, and 
one they delight to honor; for many have united with the church 
under his preaching. 

"In 1875 the church was wrecked by a tornado, so badly that 
the congregation ceased to use it until it was repaired. This was 
done by Mr. E. E. Page, whose bill was $700. The church was in 
great straits to raise the money. But in their time of need came two 
Methodist brethren who gave $100 and $10; and the church, after a 
hard struggle, raised the balance 

"The following is a list of ministers who have preached here 
from the earliest times: The Eevs. Irwin, J. W. Allen, Byers, 
Walker, Montgomery, Luther, Lafferty, Sproule, Eoberts, Welham, 
Skinner, Marquis, Stevenson, May and Sydenstricker. The Eev. D. 
L. Lander was Pastor of this church from 1879-1884, and has paid 
the church a high compliment in returning to it after an absence of 
fifteen years. The church is now reaping the benefit of the ripe ex- 
perience during those years. Many of the members of this church 
can look back to some protracted meeting of his when they were born 
into the Kingdom of Christ. 

"Since its organization, this church has received ninety-nine per- 
sons into its communion, twenty-six by letter, the balance on pro- 
fession of their faith in Christ. The number of adults baptized has 
been forty-one; infants baptized, forty-two; .... present 
number of communicants, forty-two. It has been without a Pastor or 



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Stated Supply a great deal of the time, owing to its isolated situa- 
tion. But it has been faithful in keeping the Sunday school going. 
Its fruits can readily be seen in the number of young people who 
have joined the church. Very few are in the neighborhood who 
have been regular attendants and are not members, verifying the 
Scripture which says: 'Train up a child in the way he should go, 
and when he is old he will not depart from it.^ 

Several revival seasons have been granted this church, resulting in 
much good to church and community. On one occasion it was 
reported (1877) : "Many have been added to the membership, the 
only saloon in this community closed, and the proprietor a con- 
vert." During the anniversary exercises it was stated by the Eev. 
D. L. Lander that one very cold night, when he had determined 
to close his protracted meeting that night on account of the 
unfavorable weather, he asked for an expression of desire to seek 
Christ. There were in the audience only seven unconverted per- 
sons, all of whom rose, and soon after united with the church. Of 
:hose seven, two are now preaching the Gospel, the Eev. Geo. E 
Keithley, son of the wriier of the historical paper quoted above, now 
of the Presbyterian Church in Coronado, Cal., and the Eev. E. W. 
Thornton, of the Christian Church. 

Under Mr. Lander's first pastorate, this church and Malta 
Bend, with which it was grouped, were self-supporting. It is 
situated in one of the most beautiful parts of the famous agricul- 
tural county of Saline and ought to continue its good work for 
many years to come. The county, like many of the other garden 
spots of this region, is coveted by the Eoman Catholics, who are 
buying up almost every farm from time to time offered for sale. 
But the Presbyterian saints of Salt Springs church will persevere. 
This church has been sunplied, half-time, by the Eev. C. C. Mc- 
Kinney, of Malta Bend, since the spring of 1900, 

SCHELL CITY. 

At the spring meeting of Presbytery, 1875, Ministers ^N'ewton 
and Dodd, and Elder Cleland were appointed a Committee to 
organize at Schell Citv, in answer to a petition from there. The 
Committee visited there the first Sabbaths in the following June 
and Julv, on the latter occasion or2:anizing a church of 20 mem- 
bers, with I. C. Sickels and . .Ainsworth as Elders. It first 
Minister, Licentiate W. P. Baker, was soon followed by the Eev 
J. G. Venable, who left on account of ill health. In 1879, under 
the care of the Eev. Wm. M. Eeed, it secured and remodeled for 
its use a larp-e, well built house of worship, toward which the Board 
of Church Erection contributed $500. It had formerly been used 
as a school building. This church has never had an installed 



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Pastor, though it presented a call for the services of the Eev. J. Hays 
Allin, who supplied it for a time. It has usually had .quarter time 
in connection with neighboring churches, or under the Pastor-at- 
Large. The Rev. Wm. Sickels, once Pastor of the Sharon and Drexel 
churches, is the son of the late Elder I. C. Sickels of this church. 

SEDALIA FIRST. 

The city of Sedalia is mainly of post-bellum growth and owes 
its existence to the railroads. The first house of worship there was 
erected by the Presbyterians. During the Civil War, the late Rev. 
Joshua Barbee preached occasionally in Sedalia, and succeeded in 
gathering a small congregation. Under his leadership an old frame 
church building then standing in Syracuse, Mo., was bought and 
removed to Sedalia, where it was re-erected on the present site of 
Hotel Huckins, on the corner of Second and Lamine streets. During 
the year 1865 religious services were conducted in this building by 
the Presbyterians and the "Christians" on alternate Sabbaths. 

Concerning the First Presbyterian Church of Sedalia, which 
used this building, Mr. P. G. Stafford, now an Elder in the Central 
Church, writes: "The writer well remembers the pleasant after- 
noon of Aug. 11, 1865, when the First Presbyterian Church of 
Sedalia was constituted. Thirteen persons, with no thought of an 
unlucky number, met in a little school house to organize the only 
church in the town. They called in the Rev. John Montgomery, D. 
D., to moderate the meeting. All the persons present were enrolled 
as members. The name was selected on motion of John F. Phillips, 
now Judge of the United States Court, Western District of Mis- 
souri." 

Dr. John Montgomery was invited to supply the church, which 
he did, with small intermission, until April, 1868, when the Rev. 
Cyrus H. Dunlap began his labors as Stated Supply. ^T)r. Mont- 
gomer3^'s influence remains a precious legacy to all who are inter- 
ested in Presbyterianism and true religion in western Missouri. 
The work done by him for this church was very important, and 
deserves the separate article given elsewhere." 

From its organization until the year 1870 the First Church had 
no ecclesiastical connection. This fact is to be attributed partly 
to the condition of affairs following the Civil War, but recently 
ended, and partly to the foreseen Reunion of the Old and 'New 
School branches of our denomination. Of these two causes the 
latter was probably the stronger. Some of the members thousrht 
that doctrinal truth and good church government were imperiled 
by the Reunion. This feeling was so strong that on Feb. 4, 1870, 
when it was proposed to send a representative to Osage Presbytery, 
thirty-eight members asked for their letters, and organized a new 



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church. This second organization remained independent for a time, 
being known as the Old School Church, and later as the Broadway 
Church in the Southern connection. As it subsequently trans- 
ferred its connection to Kansas City Presbytery, a sketch of it ap- 
pears later. 

Mr. Dunlap continued with the First church until Mar. 3, 1872. 
During the year 1870 the frame house of worship now occupied by 
the Central church on the corner of Fifth and Lamine streets, was 
erected and dedicated. The first pastor to occupy the pulpit of the 
new church was the Eev. John H. Miller, who was called Sep. 30, 
1872, and remained until Apr. 12, 1876. The other pastors of the 
First church were H. M. Shockley, (1876-80), Geo. A. Beattie, 
(1880-86), and John Herron, who began his labors in Sedalia in 
December, 1886. He remained as pastor until after the church was 
merged with the Broadway Presbyterian church upon the entrance 
of the latter into the Northern connection. For two years thereafter 
Mr. Herron continued as pastor of the- united church. 

SEDALIA CEISTTEAL. 

The Central Presbyterian church of Sedalia was organized 
Oct. 2, 1890, with a membership of 144, taken from the Broadway 
Presbyterian church, which but a few months before had been 
organized out of the old First and Broadway churches (I^orth and 
South). A Committee of Presbytery, Dr. Ceo. P. Hays, chairman, 
appointed the preceding July, had visited the city and reported in 
favor of dividing the church. This report was adopted by Pres- 
bytery at its fall meeting. The division was not entirely along the 
former lines. 

The Central church has had three Pastors. Of these the Eev. 
E. E. Marquis remained six and one-half years, and the Eev. J. 
D. Catlin one and a half years. These brethren will always be 
held in gratful remembrance for their faithful work. The present 
Pastor, Eev. Andrew A. Boyd, began his labors in Sedalia the last 
Sabbath in July, 1900. 

As told under the sketch of the First church, the Central 
church now occupies the building erected by the First Presbyterian 
church of Sedalia, which had been used for school purposes during 
the time when the First and Broadway churches were united. An 
amicable division of the property of the united church gave the 
Central organization the property at Fifth and Lamine streets, 
including a small manse, allowing the Broadway church the use of 
the building erected by the Southern Presbyterians. Both churches 
have been somewhat hampered by debt. 

Though one of our youngest churches, the Central church has 
always been well organized and active not only in its own support 



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but also in every Missionary enterprise, standing well up among the 
churches of the Presbytery in its contributions to the various Boards. 

SBDALIA BROADWAY.* 

On the 4th day of Pebruary, 1870, the Elders of the Pirst 
Presbyterian Church of Sedalia were directed by a congregational 
meeting to send a representative to Osage Presbytery. On the 14th 
of Pebruary, 1870, a number of members withdrew from the First 
Church and organized another church, called the Old School Pres- 
byterian Church. They elected Thos. J. Montgomery, Wm. Groes- 
beck and John P. Phillips as Elders. The new congregation wor- 
shipped for a while in a theatre, called Smith's Hall, and then 
bought the church building which had been retained and used by 
the Pirst Church until the erection of the building now occupied 
by the Central Church. 

Dr. John Montgomery ministered to the Old School church 
as a Supply until the fall of 1872, when the Rev. J. E. Wheeler 
was installed as Pastor. After his leaving, the church was sup- 
plied by Ministers J. Y. Worsham, W. G. P. Wallace, B. T. Lacey, 
D. D., and T. D. Stephenson. In 1881 the Rev. A. W. Nesbit was 
called, and (though never installed as Pastor) continued to supply 
the church until about 1887. Under his ministrations, the old 
church edifice and grounds, located at the corner of Second and 
Lamine streets, were sold, and a tract of land was purchased at the 
corner of Broadway and Kentucky streets, upon which was erected 
the brick building now used by the Broadway church. Upon its 
removal thither the Old School Presbyterian church changed its 
name to the Broadway Presbyterian church. The illness of his 
father, who had removed to the State of California, took Mr. Nesbit 
away, his relation with the church ceasing Nov. 27, 1886. The 
pulpit was thereafter supplied by the Rev. Dr. James Edmonson for 
six months, and by others for short periods until the union of the 
First and Broadway churches in 1888. 

On the 13th of February, 1888, the Sessions of the two churches, 
the Broadway church and the First church, held a joint meeting 
to discuss the union of the two churches. After some negotiations 
the union was perfected. The members of the Broadway church 
received letters of dismission from the Lafayette Presbytery, and 
were received into the First church. By this action the Broadway 
church was dissolved and its property deeded to the First church. 
The united churches now formed one church. Those who had 
formerly served as Elders in the Broadway church were elected to 
the eldership in the First church. The Rev. John Herron, Pastor of 
the First church, was retained as Pastor. Finally the name of the 

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First Presbyterian church of Sedalia was changed to the Broadwa}- 
Presbyterian church, and it so remains to this day. This union 
was approved by the Presbytery of Kansas City at a meeting at 
Holden, April 12, 1898. There was then only one Presbyterian 
church in the city, worshipping in tlie building on Broadway. 

Sept. 24, 1890, a number of communicants withdrew from the 
Broadway church, and were soon after organized as the Central 
Presbyterian church of Sedalia. The Broadway church deeded 
i;o the new organization the church building on Fifth and Lamine 
streets, where the Central church has since worshipped. x\bout the 
same time the pastoral relation between the Broadway church and 
the Eev. John Herron was dissolved. A call was extended to the 
Rev. J. Ross Stevenson, who accepted and was ordained and 
installed Pastor, Dec. 31, 1890. Mr. Stevenson resigned his charge 
in July, 1894, to accept the chair of Church History in McCormick 
Theological Seminary. He was succeeded by the Rev. W. F. Price, 
who remained but about a year, and by the Rev. L. P. Cain, who 
remained until July, 1899. The present Pastor, the Rev. E. W. 
Clippinger, was installed in Sept., 1899. 

The church is now well organized and actively at work. It has 
230 communicants, 150 scholars in the Sabbath school, a Women^s 
Missionary Society, and Senior and Junior Societies of Christian 
Endeavor. Through its whole history this church has been conser- 
vative, under the guidance of Presbyterians of the Old School. It 
has been regular in its contributions to all the Church Boards, and 
faithful in the maintenance of its services at all seasons. 

SHARON. 

This church stands on a sightly spot overlooking the broad 
prairies of Cass and Bates Counties. It stands on the north side of 
the county line, about 3-J miles east of the Kansas line. It was 
organized N'ov. 18, 1877, by Synodical Missionary J. W. Allen and 
Elder W. B. Wills, of the Olive Branch church. There were ten 
original members. In 1879, by the help of $400 from the Board of 
Church Erection, it began the erection of a house of worship. The 
cosr of the house was $1,600, exclusive of the grounds, three and a 
half acres, part of which is used as a cemetery. It was dedicated 
Aug. 14, 1881, by the Rev. Timothy Hill, D. D., of Kansas City. 

Though for many years supplied with preaching only part of 
the time, the Sharon church has been one of the most important 
country churches in the Presbytery. The first work done there 
was by Licentiate W. P. Baker, who was with them for about six 
months before the organization and a year afterwards. Its other 
Ministers have been: Lafavette Dudley, '78-80; Josiah Thompson, 
'81-2: R. P. Boyd, a Princeton student, summer of '82; J, M, 

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Hunter, of the neighboring church of Louisburg, Kan., ^83-5; A. 
M. Mann, of Louisburg, ^85-8; C. E. Leonard, a McCormicl^ 
student, summer of ^88; L. Railsback, ^88-9; Josiah Thompson, 
'89, 6 months; Thos. H. Jones, 4 months; Weston F. Shields, the 
first Pastor, June, 1890, to April, 1893; Wm. Sickels, June, '93 to 
Oct. ^96; T. J. May; '97; O. B. Sproule, '98. 

The Sharon people have enjoyed several revival seasons, notably 
under the preaching of Mr. Railsback, on more than one occasion. 
It had maintained a good Sabbath school, and has had its missionary 
zeal kept alive especially through the efforts of Mr. Shields, who 
married Miss Lillian Hendrickson of this church and went to the 
Laos Mission, in 1894. 

When the town of Drexel sprang up three miles west of the 
Sharon church, a new church was organized in town which weak- 
ened the parent organization. The two churches have since been 
grouped, and recently have shared their Minister's time with the 
Faindew church, thirteen miles southeast. 

SIX MILE. 

This church was located about twelve miles from Independence, 
near Sibley. It was enrolled by the Presbytery of Lafayette in the 
spring of 1847 as organized by J. M. Inskeep. It obtained a com- 
fortable brick house of worship. It was cared for by the Ministers 
of the Independence church. 

SMITHTON. 

For two or three years toward the close of the Civil War 
period, the Rev. Joshua Barbee, then a L^'centiate, preached regularly 
at Smithton. Under his leadership a Union house of worship was 
erected, but so far as learned no formal Presbyterian organization 
was effected. After the war there seems to have been no further 
systematic effort there until the Rev. A. J. Johnson began preaching 
in Smithton in Jan., 1869. On March 27, following, he and the 
Rev. J. H. Byers organized a church of 9 members, with Dr. J. M. 
Overstreet and J. T. Su.lken Elders. A fourth interest in the 
Union Church building worth $1,000 was obtained. Mr. Johnson 
supplied the feeble band for about two years, and Licentiate A. 
Walker for about a year. Neither the town nor the church grew. 
The name of the church was finallv stricken off the rolls, April 16, 
1875. 

SOUTH GRATO RIVER. 

Enrolled by the Presbytery of Lafayette in the fall of 1857. 
Probably its only Supply was the Rev. J. T. Leonard, who remained 
until driven out by the Civil War. 



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See Creighton. 

SUNNYSIDE. 

In the St. Louis Evangelist of April, 1877, appears this 
notice of this church: "The Snnnyside church was organized the 
28th day of September, 1867, by the Rev. John M. Brown^ an 
Evangelist in the Presbytery of Osage. There were 12 members, 
three of whom, viz: Clifton R. Jones, Christian L. Perry, from the 
church of Warsaw, Mo., and John l^eil from the church of Glad 
Run, Pa., having been ordained to the office of Ruling Elders in 
their former connections, were unanimously chosen as the Session of 
the church. * * The Rev. Enos M. Halbert was the first Min- 
ister in charge as Stated Supply from 1867 to May, 1870, Under 
his ministration the church prospered and increased in membership 
to 33. When the Presbytery sent him to Cave Spring, Green 
County, the flock was not spared, and nearly one-half the mem- 
bers joined the Declaration and Testimony or Southern body, and 
organized a church at Spring Grove, Little Tebo. * * June 4, 
1S71, Rev. Duncan Brown became Pastor, and remained in charge of 
Sunnyside and Warsaw churches to the fall of 1872. During ^73 
and ^74 the church was supplied part of the time by Rev. John B, 
Ruby, and part by Rev. J. B. Vawter; and in May, 1875, Rev. A. 
H. Parks became Stated Supply for one year. Under his ministry 
the church revived, since which time they received 4 additions. 
Rev. John B. Ruby has preached to the church once a month part of 
the time." 

Sept., 1877, the Rev. S. W. Mitchell took charge, remaining 
over four years. During his ministry a house of worship was 
erected, frame, 30 by 45 feet. A notice of .the dedication said at 
the time : "The new church is located in the midst of a purely 
agricultural section, and is the result of long continued and patient 
labor on the part of both Pastor and people. It is a model of taste 
and beauty; and, there being no village or other dwelling near, it 
stands like a pearl set in the midst of emeralds. It has a seating 
capacity for about 350 persons. The entire cost was not far from 
$1,200. The Board of Church Erection has helped it to the extent 
of about $300. The Board of Home Missions has also contributed 
liberally to the support of the Pastor. The dedication took place on 
the 29th of June (1879), at 10:30 a. m." Revival services were 
then held, and the next Sabbath there were 13 persons added to 
the church on profession of their faith in the Lord Jesus. 

After Mr. Mitchells time, there were several years during 
which this people was supplied with little regular preaching, some- 
times by students during their summer vacations. Under Pastors- 
at-Large May, Railsback and Watkins they were supplied regularly 
once a month, and enjoyed several revival seasons. Erom 1898 to 



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1900 the Eev. M. B. W. Granger supplied thenij in connection with 
Warsaw. 

TABO. 

The Tabo Church, in Lafayette County, was organized June 
19, 1842, by the Eev. Geo. M. Crawford. He remained for some 
years its Suppl}^, being succeeded by the Revs. Robert Glenn and F. 
R. Gray. It belonged to the Presbytery of Lexington. Little is 
now discoverable as to its history. A private letter from the Rev 
F. R. Gallaher, March 23, 1858, says : ''I returned last week from 
Tabo, where we held a nine days' meeting. It was a precious 
season. Father Glenn is in very feeble health." At one time the 
church had a brick church building, free of debt, that cost $2,500. 
It once had a membership of fort}^, which decreased until during the 
war there were only ten or fifteen left. The church building wat. 
sold for taxes in 1867. The remnant of the members joined the 
Declaration and Testimony party. 

TIPTO^sT. 

In the Presbytery Reporter for May, 1867, the Rev. J. Addison 
Whitaker gives this account of the beginninigs at Tipton: "Several 
months ago I was notified by Rev. A. T. ^N'orton that he had been 
informed that Tipton, a little town on the east side of our beautiful 
prairie, thirty miles west of Jefferson City, had been unoccupied by 
any Presbyterian clergyman since the death of Rev. Mr. Chapin 
(who was imrned to death in his little home), and desired me if pos- 
sible to visit the place and make a report to him. Accordingly, a 

few days afterwards, I went there. * * Sonietime after 

I received a j)etition signed by about 50 of the citizens of the place, 
prajdng me to come up. at my earliest convenience and organize a 
Presbyterian church. I fixed upon a Sabath to spend with them, 
and according to appointment, on the afternoon of the 9th inst. 
(Saturday. March 9. 1867), preached a sermon to a small but 
interesting congregation, the people having got the impression that 
the meeting was more especially for the members, and organized a 
church in connection with the Presbytery of St. Louis. * * Milo 
Yj, Stearns and William P. Miller were unanimously elected Elders. 
The ordination of ]\Ir. ]\Iiller was appointed at 3 o'clock the follow- 
ing day. Mr. Stearns having produced testimonials that he had 
been ordained. " Trustees were elected. "At half past seven o'clock 
p. m., there was a meeting called to consider the propriety of imme- 
diately taking steps to erect a building suitable for school and 
church purposes. The Board of Trustees was organized. * * 
Another sermon was preached. The day following (Sabbath) Mr. 
Miller was ordained Ruling Elder, in accordance with the usages of 



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the Presbyterian Church; and the Lord^s Supper was celebrated. 
The congregation was large, attentive and deeply impressed with the 
solemn services. This is one of the most interesting new fields of 
ministerial labor I have visited in this state. It is already a 
stronger and more promising church than my own in this city 
(Jefferson) except in its general influence throughout the state.'^ 
The Baptists kindly gave the use of their building for these exercises 
There were 12 original members, 8 of them women. 

For the first few years this church was supplied irregularly, 
and only a part of the time, by the Eevs. A. North, a returned 
Missionary from Singapore ; C. Y. Monfort, of Otterville ; S. 
Diefendorf, and J. W. Allen, Synodical Missionary. On the 9th 
of June, 1872, a frame house of worship, 25 by 50, was dedicated. 
It cost $2,000, of which $500 came from the Board of Church 
Erection. The people were now much interested to get a settled 
Pastor. They called the Eev. Alexander Walker, then preaching 
near by at Otterville. He accepted and was installed Oct. 21, 1872, 
remaining until Jan. 26, 1883. Strange to say this pastorate of 
only ten years and three months is so far the longest in the history 
of the Presbytery, though if Stated Supplies are counted, there 
have been a few who have exceeded this limit. He was much beloved 
by his people and successful in his work. During his pastorate 
many members were received who have evfer since been leading mem- 
bers, including several that had jDclonged to a Lutheran organiza- 
tion which was virtually absorbed by the Presbyterians. 

The results of Mr. Walker's work were summed up b}' *Trank,'' 
the correspondent of the St. Louis Evangelist, as follows: "If an}^- 
one had looked over the list of churches as reported in the Minutes 
of the General Assembly for 1872, he would have found in the 
Presbytery of Osage, the church at Tipton marked vacant. No one 
need take the trouble to verify this statement. This is all that is 
rcorded: ^Tipton, Y. 10,' vacant ten members and no report, every 
space blank. Ten years rolls around and brings us the Minutes of 
1882. What is the report from the Tipton Church? 106 members, 
115 Sunday school scholars, fully $1^200 raised for all purposes 
and not one space unoccupied. What does it mean? It means t} -ai 
there has been some good, honest, faithful work done on that field. 
Is it wrong to say a pleasant and complimentary word for a brother? 
If it is, theii let us hope that this will not fall beneath the eye of the 
Kev. Alexander Walker. Bro. Walker deserves more than a passini^ 
notice for his faithful services. He went ten years ago to a field 
that many a Minister would have pronounced a hopeless case. 
There he remained, preached the Gospel, and set a good example to 
his fellow citizens. The result proves the wisdgm of staying in a 
place, when one gets there, and laboring with as much zeal in a small 
town as if it were a large city. During the ten years of Bro. 



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Walker^s ministry, 133 members were added to the Tipton Church, 
66 on profession of faith, 67 by letter. There was seldom a year 
when contributions were not made to all the Boards of the Churcti. 
Eully $10,000 was raised for all purposes; and the feble, dependant 
vjongregation became strong and self-sustaining. That is the kind 
of work that counts somethin,^^ m our churches.^^ 

Soon after the departure of Mr. Walker, who accepted a call to 
the Butler Church, a successor was found in the person of the E"5V. 
Wilson Asdale. He too remained several years, and did a good 
work. His stay was from June 28, 1883, to Oct. 9, 1892. He was 
installed Oct. 18, 1889. After he left, the church was not so 
fortunate in its next two pulpit supplies, the first of whom stayed 
a year, the latter 8 months, one a Licentiate, the other a Minister 
who proved to be without standing in his own Presbytery, both 
unworthy of the ministerial office, i^either of them was invited 
there by the Tipton Church; but when once there each was retained 
JLigely through sympathy with his poverty and ill health. 

After 1895 this church was tided along by members of the Pres- 
bytery till it could again get a Pastor. The Rev. John B. Hill 
spent a few months there in 1896, followed by the Eev. E. H. Jack- 
son, and by the Eev. J. F. Watkins. Under the ministry of the 
latter, a new and handsome house of worship was built, and several 
members who had withdrawn and organized a Southern Presbyteiian 
church were received into the old church, the new one being dis- 
organized. In the summer of 1898 the Eev. E. W. McClusky bogan 
as Pastor Elect. The following spring the old church building was 
remodeled into a manse. 

In almost every church there is or has been some one persjn 
who more than any other has shaped its history both temporal and 
spiritual. That one person in the Tipton Church was its first Elder, 
Milo E. Stearns, whose name is appropriately carved on a memorial 
pulpit in 'the new church. ISTo notice of the Tipton Presbyterian 
church could be complete without a mention of his services therein. 
As a business man, teacher, soldier, farmer, bank cashier, he made 
his influence widely felt, and himself highly respected. But it was 
in the church that he was most interested and most influential. 
Through most of its history he was the Clerk of Session, one of his 
very latest works being the great task of recopying in a new and 
well bound book all the scattered records of the church, and the 
preparation of a model Church Eegister, thus preserving facts that 
at his death would otherwise have passed forever out of memory 
unrecorded. Other Clerks of Session throughout the Presbytery 
might well learn a lesson from him in this regard, as well as in neat- 
ness and accuracy in keeping their books. As Elder, Trustee, Clerk 
of Session, Chairman of more than one Building Committee, Super- 
intendent of the Sabbath school, Bible-class Teacher and always the 



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mainstay of the prayer meeting, his place can never again be filled 
by one person, his influence will long be strongly felt and feelingly 
remembered. 

VISTA. 

At the meeting of Presbytery held during the meeting of Synod 
in the fall of 1891 Ministers McLaren and Pocock and Elder J. 
P. Watkins were appointed a Committee to organize a church at 
Vista. The following spring the Committee reported : ^^On Sunday, 
March the 3d, 1892, in the Town Hall at Vista, Mo., at the close of 
the public service, the Presbyterian Church of Vista was regularly 
organized, with 12 members. Two Elders were elected and 
ordained. Eev. A. McLaren was instructed to report the same to 
the Kansas City Presbytery.^^ The church was cared for by the 
Pastor of the neighboring church of Osceola, with which it has 
ever since been grouped. The next fall it was reported as making 
energetic efforts to secure a church building, and about to apply 
to the Board of the Church Erection Fund for aid. Such aid was 
granted and a neat house of worship soon secured, in which services 
have usuallv been held once a month ever since. Its growth has 
been small. 

WADESBUEG. 

See Creighton. 

WAREEKSBURG. 

The first notice we have found of Presbyterian work at War- 
rensburg appears in the Home Missionary for Juh^, 1847, from the 
pen of the Eev. Christopher Bradshaw. He wrote: "In Warrens- 
burg the prospect for good is flattering. A tavern keeper of the 
place has this winter opened his house for preaching. The ringing 
of his bell is the signal for worship, at candle light on Saturday 
evening, and on the Sabbath at 11 o^clock. He has lately pur- 
chased the old court house and the lot on which it stands ; and it 
is now being fitted up for a permanent place for Presbyterian preach- 
ing. We want a settled Minister at Warrensburg — one that will 
become ^all things to all men' with the design of saving some of 
them.'' Mr. Bradshaw seems to have supplied these people with 
occasional preaching for several years; but the IN'ew School Church 
with which he was connected formed no organization there. 

The First Presbyterian Church of Warrensburg was organized, 
May 30, 1852, by the Eev. A. V. C. Schenck and Elder Green, a 
Committee sent by the Presbytery of Upper Missouri for the pur- 
pose. There were six men and 9 women in the original organiza- 
tion. It was nearly three years before another member was received. 
The only stated preaching there before ^he war was by Ministers 
James T. Lapsley and E. S, Eeese, who served the church for about 



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two years each, during which time tliere was quite a large growth 
in membership. During the war there were occasional services by 
the Rev. Messrs. David Coulter, Joshua Barbee, dohn Montgomery 
and Wm. G. Bell. 

In this connection an old record (quoted in the History of 
Johnson County, 1881), dated March 27. 1864, says: "Whereas 
the Warrensburg Presbyterian Church has been almost entirely 
deprived of any ministerial services since the war began, except a 
few sermons preached for us by the Rev. Joshua Barbee, and that it 
is very important to the spiritual interest of this church that we 
secure the ministerial services of the Rev. Joshua Barbee, and that 
he asks $350 per annum for his services, which sum we deem very 
reasonable, and after a full and fair effort we can raise only the sum 
of $50, and we are advised that there is a hopeful prospect of a 
church at Smithton, 40 miles distant from this church, which will 
pay $50, and the people at Dresden, 25 miles distant from this 
church, will pay $50, leaving a deficit of $200, 

"Resolved, Therefore, that the application be made to the 
Board of Domestic Missions for the aforesaid sum of $200, to aid 
the said churches in securing the services of the aforesaid Rev. 
Joshua Barbee. The Session was then closed with prayer. 

(Signed.) "William Calhoun, Sec, pro fern., 

"Wm. Zoll, Mod. pro tern.'" 

'No meeting of Presbytery, however, was held in those troublous 
times until after the close of the war, and Mr. Barbee was not 
regularly settled at Av'arrensburg. During his stay $500 was 
obtained from, the Board of Church Extension, and used for the 
completion of the church building. 

Soon after the close of the war, the Rev. Eben Muse began 
preaching in the Warrensburg Church. He and a majority of the 
church members sided with the General Assembly against the 
Declaration and Testimony. There was, however, a vigorous 
minority who protested against his installation, which finally took 
place NoY. 12, 1867. This was the beginning of a long series of 
internal troubles and ecclesiastical trials, involving members, officers, 
the Pastor and his successor. The pastorate of Mr. Muse, while it 
covered the troublous times of the reconstruction period, was also the 
time of rapid uj)building of the church numerically, because of 
the extensive immigration from tlie East and ]^orth. There were 
received during this pastorate of four ^^ars 126 members from 
other churches, while 38 came by profession of faith. During no 
similiar period have there been such numerous accessions. A few 
years later the organization of other congregations, the internal 
troubles of this church, and the westward movement of the popula- 
tion greatly depleted the membership. 



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In the fall of 1870, Mr. Muse was succeeded by the Rev. J. H. 
Clark, who remained as Pastor Elect, until the spring of 1872. The 
next Minister was the Rev. W. H. Hillis, who was installed Pastor 
and remained about three years. April 16, 1875, according to the 
Minutes of Presbytery, "the Rev. W. H. Hillis requested leave to 
resign the pastoral charge of the Warrensburg Church, and gave the 
reason which led him to make the request, viz : Affection of the 
eyes which rendered it impossible for his to discharge the duties 
of the pastoral office without endangering his sight. The church 
concurring in the request, for the same reason, the Presbytery 
granted the request,^^ and dissolved the pastoral relation. During 
his stay with them the old brick church, in which the congregation 
had worshiped since its erection by them before the Civil War, was 
sold for $900, and the present commodious brick structure, begun 
during Mr. Clark^s ministry, was completed at a cost of about 
$8,000. At that time it was the largest and best building in the city. 
But notwithstanding the generous help of the Board of the Church 
Erection Fund, a heavy debt was incurred, which it took years to 
pay off. Owing to the eml)arrassments of the congregation, many 
of the members became discouraged and united with other churches. 

The next Minister was the Rev. Farel Hart, who was ordained 
(sine titulo) in Warrensburg, and remained only about a year. Not 
long afterward he was drowned in the Alpena wreck in Lake Michi- 
gan. He was succeeded by the Rev. Charles Fueller, who, after 
supplying the pulpit for a few months, was installed as Pastor, June 
13, 1878, and remained about five years. Then came Geo. M. Cald- 
well, S. S., for one year, under, under whom the last of the debt 
was paid, Oct., 1 883 ; and Dwight K. Steele, P. E. for seven years, 
under whom the church had a slow but steady growth, and finally 
reached self support in 1891. 

A new epoch in the history of the church was begun with the 
com,ing of the Rev. F. W. Hinitt. He came direct from the 
Seminary, was ordained and installed Pastor April 22, 1892, and 
remained three years. Under his ministrations the church soon 
reached the largest membership ever up to that time enrolled, and 
a good degree of prosperity otherwise. He resigned to accept the 
call of the First Church of Ottumwa, one of the most important in 
the Synod of Iowa. His going was much regretted; but his place 
was soon ably filled by the coming of the Rev. E. W. Clippinger, 
who was ordained and installed Pastor, May 7, 1895. He 
remained four and a half years, until called to the position he now 
occupies as Pastor of the Broadway Church, Sedalia. In October, 
1899, the Rev. J. Marion Ross, at that time serving as the Moderator 
of the Synod of Illinois, was called to the pastorate, accepted, and 
was soon after installed. Since his coming many members have 



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been received, making the total membership reported in 1901 the 
largest ever reported to Presbytery. 

The last nine years have been marked by large expenditures 
for the improvement of the chnrch property, the purchase of a fine 
pipe organ, careful and prompt business management in financial 
affairs, and largely increased liberality in benevolent offerings. 

The Warrensburg Church is one of the most important in the 
Presbytery, not merely on account of the membership naturally 
entering it but also on account of the location of the State Normal 
School, many of Avhose teachers and students are Presbyterians by 
training and preference. Through them the church exerts a wide 
influence all over this part of the State. Several of the teachers of 
the Normal School, including President Geo. H. Howe, have been 
efiicient as members of the Session and in the Sabbath school. With 
a united people and an efficient Pastor, the Warrensburg church 
ought to show a large growth and a constantly widening influence 
throughout the Presbytery and the Synod. 

WARSAW. 

The most remarkable thing about the Warsaw church, one of 
the oldest in the Presbytery, is the number of times it has been 
reorganized. Yet through all the vicissitudes local, national and 
ecclesiastical, through which it has passed, it claims that it has 
never been disorganized, and retains the same life to-day as that 
with which it began 57 years ago ! 

It was organized June 11, 1843, bv the Rev. James Gallaher, 
the most noted Evangelist in the State in his day. But he did not 
long supply it with preaching (never statedly), and its first Stated 
Supply found it practically dead. An interesting account of its 
early days during the ministry of Dr. Handy is found in his long 
letter given elsewhere, where he tells of the erection of its first 
house of worship, the first ever erected in the place. When the 
Rev. J. Y. Barks came Nov. 24, 1848, he found a good church and 
Sabbath school, w^ll organized, well housed, and actively at work. 
He remained with them 15 years, until the work was blasted by the 
Civil War. Under his ministrations the church grew and prospered. 
In 1857 came the very general break-rip of the New School denomi- 
nation in Missouri. The Warsaw chnrch and its Pastor i here- 
after felt constrained to identify themselves with the Old School 
body, which they finally did at the spring meeting of the Presbytery 
of Lafayette in 1860. In doing so they fully recognized and 
acknowledged their debt to the New School body for help in erect- 
ing their building. A letter from Mr. Marks, March 29, 1860, to 
the Secretary of the Mo. H. M. S., says: 



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823 



"The amount due the Church Erection Fund which you men- 
tion is all right. The reason why it was not paid was this: 1. We 
made an effort some two years ago, at home and also in St. Louis, to 
raise enough money to pay off our debt, and finish the house, 
repairs, etc. But we did not raise enough to satisfy all demands. 
2. Capt. Henry, one of our merchants who so liberally assisted 
me, while in St. Louis thought best to invest $150 of the money 
raised in St. Louis for a bell, an article we greatly needed. The 
bell came, and for want of funds to put it up, laid 12 months in his 
store. We then collected $150 to erect a belfry, and it is now swing- 
ing, to the delight of all; but it took just $300 to place it there. 
So our debt still remains.^' On that account he asked for more time 
in which to pay off the loan made by the Missouri Church Erection 
Fund. Thus the war began and closed with the debt unpaid. 

The conditions at the close of the war are well seen by the 
letter of the Eev. John M. Brown to Synodical Missionary Norton, 
as given below. Bro. Brown was a Union soldier and used the terms 
then commonly used in referring to those that had been on the other 
side in that contest. He wrote as follows : 

"Warsaw, Mo., Dec. 11, 1865. 

"Dear Bro. Norton : — I arrived here last Friday, with my 
family and household effects; and have just got to housekeeping 
again. I feel that Missouri is now my home, and a strong longing 
for the great work before me. 

"I find here our church building considerably out of repair, 
(it was used as a hospital during the war), and occupied as a 
school-house. It had also been occupied by the Ministers of the 
various denominations, who have chanced to spend a Sabbath here. 
The house is a substantial edifice of brick, capable of seating nearly 
'three hundred, and possessing a bell. $150 will repair it. There 
is one other church building here, also of brick, but so badly torn 
up by the soldiers that it is not used, except by the cattle and hogs. 
It is owned by the Campbellites. 

"Of the 50 members of the Presbyterian church at the com- 
mencement of the war, I have found three, all females, and residing 
from two to five miles in the country. Have also heard of one male 
member, living more than ten miles distant. The others were all 
Bebels, had to leave during the war, and cannot come back. There 
are three females, members of the K. S. Presbyterian Church, 
recently settled here ; two of these are connected with my own family. 

"The other churches have been completely broken up by the 
war. The Campbellites have recently reorganized with eight mem- 
bers. Four years ago they had over one hundred. It is worse with 
the other churches. There are neither members nor vitality enough 
to reorganize. 



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"Before the Eebellion, Warsaw numbered 2,000 inhabitants, 
was the center of a large trade, and one of the most important and 
promising towns in sonthwest Missouri.' 'Now its population is less 
than 1,000, and has almost entirely, changed its character. Its 
trade, small compared with what it was before, is fast increasing; 
and the place promises soon to regain its former importance and 
prosperity. It is a hard, bnt encouraging field. I have therefore 
determined to preach here one-half the time and make it my home 
for the winter." 

Bro. Brown^s bright hopes were not realized. He reorganized 
the church, which, Sept. 15, 1866, petitioned to be received under 
the care of the Presbytery of Osage. Why it did not come in at the 
spring meeting is not known, as it had already decided to do so as 
far back as February of that year, when Mr. Brown wrote: "The 
church of Warsaw (only four members left, one Elder) have 
resolved to return to our connection. We have raised over $100 to 
repair the church building. This will give us a good, neat house, 
of brick, with a bell, and a large congregation." Mr. Brown soon 
turned over his work there to the Eev. W. S. Mesmer, who gave it part 
time for a few months in connection with other fields. 

A second reorganization was made by the Eev. Augustus Cone, 
seven members, Oct. 24, 1869; but after a few weeks, Mr. Cone 
abandoned the field. After Mr. Cone left, the Eev. D. C. Milner, of 
Osceola, preached a few times to the disorganized members. Mean- 
while the Treasurer of the Missouri Church Erection Fund, despair- 
ing of reviving the church, had ordered the building sold to satisfy 
the mortgage he held against it. It then passed into the hands 
of the Jefferson Citv church, in a wav easilv understood from the 
following letter from Pastor Whitaker: "Fov. 29th, 1869. * * 
I did what seemed to me for the best. The facts are as follows: 
Freeman [the Treasurer of the Fund] ordered the property to be 
sold on Committee's claim. I felt that the property would be 
sacrificed, if that was the case, and ordered it bought in by Lawyer 
for Com., and to be deeded to Com. When Com. met, we found 
that Freeman's report showed that the Com.'s claim was $280, or 
thereabout. I proposed that if they would make over to our Trustees 
[of the Jefferson City church] the property, we could make use of 
it in 23aying the expenses of our plastering, and that we would 
give note^ with interest, for the Com.'s claim." The church was then 
fast going almost to destruction, without a finger raised to save it. 
The Jefferson City church offered to relinquish its claim, provided 
any earnest effort should be made to reorganize and the building 
actually put in use. 

Nothing more seems to have been done untH ^ov. 19, 1871. 
when another reorganization was made by Synodical Missionary 
Timothy Hill. In his diary he then wrote : "Organized church of 9 



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325 



members. J. D. Briggs^ Elder. This is the third organization that 
has been attempted since the war. The others failed. The prospect 
is good for success now.^' The Kev. Duncan Brown had been labor- 
ing there since Jnne or Jnly previous. He was ordained the follow- 
ing April, and remained on the field about two years altogether. 
He was the only resident Minister in connection with our church, 
after the leaving of Mr. Barks until the coming of Pastor Granger, 
in 1898. The next Minister was the Eev. J. B. Yawter, who 
remained but a few months. Then followed another interregnum, 
during which the church building was sold to a private party, who 
later sold it to the Baptists. They used it for some years, and then 
tore it down. 

Presbytery sent frequent Committees to visit Warsaw, who, per- 
haps usually, reported that they had not gone. At last, however, 
the Eev. J. F. Watkins was sent and went and held a series of 
meetings there, lasting from the 20th to the 31st of December, 1880. 
The result was the reorganization of the church with 7 members, 
5 of them from the former organization and 2 on profession, 6 of 
them females, all heads of families. Capt. S. W. Smith, Editor of 
the Warsaiu Times, was ordained and installed as Enling Elder. 
The railroad began running into the town for the first time during 
these meetings. The Eev. S. W. Mitchell became Stated Supply; but 
soon again left them shepherdless. Since then they have (until 
recently) had no stated preaching, except part of the time once a 
month by the various Pastors-at-Large, each of whom has held at 
least one good series of meetings in or near Warsaw. The last of 
these meetings, again held by Mr. Watkins, resulted in a deter- 
mined and successful effort to build. The new building costing 
some $2,000, said to be the handsomest in Benton County, was 
dedicated on IMay 29, 1898. Meanwhile a new Pastor, the Eev. M. 
B. W. Granger, had been engaged, and had been installed on the 
7th of the same month. He is the only installed Pastor the church 
has ever had. The town is now more prosperous; and at last there 
seems to be a fair prospect of sustaining the church that has passed 
through so many periods of suspended animation and reorganization. 
The present supph^, George L. Engler, began his labors in Warsaw 
group in the spring of 1901. 

WESTFTELD. 

The number of strictly rural churches in Kansas City Prss- 
bytery is not large, but ought to be larger. Such churches are 
difficult to keep up ; but so are town and city churches hard to keep 
up. No churches are more important to maintain. Such organiza- 
tions as that of Westfield deserve the most careful attention and 
fostering interest of the communities in which they are placed as 
well as the Presbytery. 



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The Westfield congregation was gathered by the Eev. W. M. 
Newton, then of Appleton City, who with Eev. J. B. Allen and 
Elder Jas. McHenry was appointed in the spring of 1872 to 
organize the church. This they did on the 8th of June. There 
were 10 members, 8 by letter, 2 by profession, 5 of them women. 
Two Elders and one Deacon were elected and ordained. The 
Sabbath following the Lord's Supper was celebrated, and three 
other members were received on profession. Mr. N"ewton supplied 
them for a year, J. F. Watkins about 6 months, Mr. Newton again 
for about a year. Licentiate W. P. Baker about 6 months, and W. M. 
Eeed nearly a year. 

In 1877 the Eev. Eichard H. Jackson began supplying the 
iVppleton City and Westfield Churches. From that time he devoted 
first part, then all of his time to Westfield until 1891— the longest 
Stated Supply in the history of the Presbytery. In Jan., 1879, Mr. 
J ackson wrote : "The Lord of the Harvest has gloriously visited my 
field, and gathered in a goodly number of sheaves. On the fifth 
Sabbath of December we received 11 members into the Westfield 
Church by profession and 4 by letter. Eev. J. F. Watkins spent a 
week with me in that church. His preaching was ^in demonstra- 
tion of the Spirit and of power.' To the great Head of the Church 
we ascribe all the praise." Two years later came the dedication of 
the house of worship, of which the St. Louis Evangelist of July. 
1881, gave the following account: "The people of Westfield Pres- 
byterian Church, St. Clair County, Missouri, celebrated the ninth 
anniversary of their organization on Saturday, June 12, 1881. They 
had just completed their first house of worship, and on that day 
dedicated it to the Lord. During all the years of the church's 
existence they had worshipped in a school house, with all the discom- 
forts of a crowded room and low, cramped seats. The change from 
this to a real house of worship, comfortably seated and neatly 
furnished, made that a glad day with the people. The order of 
service was first, sermon by the Eev. W. M. ISTewton, of Butler; 
second, historv of the church by the Pastor; third, a history of the 
work and a financial statement by Charles W. Nesbit, a member of 
the Building Committee, and in behalf of that Committee turning 
over the house to the Trustees; fourth, the prayer of dedication 
by the Eev. W. M. Newton. The house cost about $1,300, is 46x28. 
The following are the closing words of the Historian: 'From the 
time this effort to build was entered upon, it seemed like the days 
of Nehemiah, the people had a mind to work, they gave up their 
time and labor and money. The Lord presided over their counsels, 
giving them wisdom and harmony and zeal. The children too vied 
with their parents and older friends in securing a temple for wor- 
ship, and, as in the living church they should occupy the inner 
court of its affections and care, so in this material temple, the 



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827 



pulpit, the most sacred piece of all its furniture, is the children's 
offering. The Board of Church Erection kindly came to the people's 
help ($500), and to-day they can truly dedicate this house unto the 
the Lord, saying, 'No man has any claim upon it; it is the Lord's/ 
Mr. John C. Nesbit, of Scotch Irish Presbyterian ancestry, in 
western Pennsylvania, a member himself, and father and grand- 
father of members in this church, gave five acres of ground on which 
to build. This will soon be enclosed, affording ample room for 
church yard, hitching grounds and cemetery. Westfield is a country 
church, located on one of the most beautiful and fertile prairies 
in Missouri. It is in the midst of a community of cultured and 
enterprising people, * * located in what is known as the ^Ohio 
neighborhood.' The address is Ohio P. 0., St. Clair County, Mo." 

Several precious revivals were experienced in this church home 
during the ministry of Mr. Jackson and his successors. In some 
of these services the preaching was by the Eev. L. Eailsback. In 
1886 a membership of 110 was reported, the largest number reached 
in its history. Following Mr. Jackson, the Eev. Geo. B. Sproule 
supplied the church for one year. In 1893 the Eev. W. M. Newton 
returned, and remained as its Supply until late in 1900. 

June 14, 1897, the church building was demolished by a cyclone. 
It was insured both by the Trustees and the Board of Church Erec- 
tion, but neither policy covered losses by wind. So many churches 
in this part of the country have been blown down that others may 
well learn a lesson about the wording of their insurance policies. 
These people were disheartened by their loss, but did not give up. 
The Board of Church Erection, the friend of every weak church, 
came again to their aid, promising $300. Let it be recorded to the 
credit of this congregation that it rebuilt its house handsomely and 
returned to the Board $100 of the appropriation. It now has the 
newest and one of the neatest houses of worship in the Presbytery. 

WESTPOmT. 

Westpoint was one of a group of small churches in the southern 
part of Cass County organized and ministered to by the Eev. D. 
McNaughton. It began with only 5 members, Dec. 12, 1869. It 
soon died and was stricken from the roll April 23, 1872. 

WESTPOET. 

The first Presbyterian organization within the present limits of 
Kansas City was that of Westport, which was effected Dec. 23, 
1850, with eleven members, four only coming by letter. Before that 
there had been preaching there by the Eev. C. H. Heckmann, who 
labored among the Germans, and by the Eev. F. E. Gray, of Inde- 



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pendence, among the Americans. Both these men were connected 
with the ]Sr, S. Presbytery of Lexington. The organization finally 
effected^ however, was by the Old School Presbytery of Lafayette, as 
will be seen by the following quotation from a private letter written 
soon after the occurrence : ^^A New School chnrch might have been 
organized here by Mr. G-ray, if he could have overcome his timidity 
sufficiently to make the effort. I think it altogether probable that 
it was through his ministry that some of the members of the present 
church were led to a profession of religion. Mr. Symington has 
gathered his fruit for him as others have done before.^^ 

A substantial church building was erected, which is still stand- 
ing. It was used until some years after the Civil War, which, Ikva- 
ever, so ruined the town that it did not recover from its injuries 
until recently. The church had some services during the war and 
for a few years after the war; but finally became virtually absorbed 
in the Central Church of Kansas City. It retained a nominal 
existence at least as late as 1887. 

WINDSOE. 

This church, sometimes called also Belmont, was enrolled 
(organized July 29, 1860, Avith 14 members) by the Presbytery of 
Lafa5^ette, Sept. 22, 1860. The Committee to organize was Min- 
isters R. S. Eeese and J. Y. Barks and Elder A. B. Mclntyre. 
After the war it was reorganized in 1868 by E. Muse, with 11 mem- 
bers. Later it adhered to that branch of the Presb3^tery of Lafayette 
affiliated with the Declaration and Testimony party. In the fall 
of 1874 there came a request to the Presbytery of Osage for tlie 
organization of a church at Windsor. The request was referred to 
the Synodical Missionary with instruction to consult with the Com- 
mittee of the Presbjrtery of Lafayette. The next spring he reported 
recommending the reception of the existing church. The Presbytery 
of Lafayette had already stricken the name of the church from its 
rolls. As far as can now be discovered from our records this church 
was supplied for a year by the Eev. A. H. Parks, and for about 
three years by thq Eev. S. W. Mitchell. It disappeared from our 
rolls about 1881 without any explanation as to when or whv 



INDEX OF CHURCHES. 



In this list those names that appear in capitals now belong to the Presby- 
tery of Kansas City; those in italics to the Presbytery of Lafayette (Southern) ; 
and those in parenthesis are either no longer in existence, or appear under a dif- 
ferent name. 



Alma. 

APPLETON CITY 

33, 34. 107, 17.5, 186, 229 

(Arrow Rock) 82, 231 

(Aullvile) . . . 92, 231 

Aurora Springs. 

(Austin) 89, 141. 231, 236 

(Belmont) 187. 232, 328 

(Belton) 94, 232 

Bethany. 

(Bethsaida) 200 

(Bethel) 90, 232 

(Big Drywood) 241 

Blackburn. 

Boonville 

11, 82, 83, 122, 132, 14.5. 1.51. 204, 233 
BROWNINGTOX. . .32, 3.5, 91, 107, 234 

Brownsville 226 

BUTLER 

32, 34, 35, 88, 112, 141, 142, 207, 
222, 235. 

Calhoun 154, 187 

California 91, 243 

Calvary. 

CENTERVIEW 92, 107, 186, 243 

CLINTON 

32, 33, 34, 35, 86, 87, 112, 128, 206, 243 

(Cole Neck) 201, 244 

(Concord) 90, 244 

Gorder. 

CREIGHTON 95, 131, 244, 304 

21 



( Deepwater ) 

35, 83, 178, 180, 200, 206, 246, 2.51 
DEEPWATER 94, 175, 235, 24(i 

(Double Branches) 200, 247, 251 

Dover 31, 82, 85, 241 

DREXEL 95, 247, 314 

(Ebenezer) 92, 247, 284 

EL DORADO SPRINGS .... 34, 94. 247 

FAIRVIEW (Bates Co.) 

95, 247, 248. 314 

(Fairview, Henry Co.).... 91, 235, 249 

(Fairview, Johnson Co.) 91, 249 

(Freeman) 92, 249 

(Georgetown) 83, 249 

GREENWOOD 

31, 33, 34, 90, 107, 141, 186. 191 

236, 250, 303. 

(Harmony) 11, 14, 82, 148, 200, 251 

(Harrisonville) ..86, 88, 141, 236, 251 
H.igginsville. 

(High Grove) 85, 106, 253 

HIGH POINT 89, 117, 227. 253 

HOLDEN 

14, 31, 32, 33, 34, 87, 106, 107, 236, 254 

( Hopewell ) 

30, 84, 85, 106, 123, 146, 255 
Houstonia. 

(Hudson) 89, 141, 142, 229, 236. 255 

(Hume) 94, 143, 255 



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INDEX. 



INDEPENDENCE 

30, 31, 35, 83, lOG. 108. 112, 110 
123, 203, 255, 265, M. 

[ndependence, Westminster . . . .257, 251) 

JEFFERSON CITY 

31, 32, 33, 34, 35, S2. ST. !)4. 117 
146, 151, 152, 183, 184. 227. 200. 324 

KANSAS CITY, FIRST 

31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 100. lOS. 122. 173 
174, 190, 205. 213. 218. 22i). 205 
266, 267. 

KANSAS CITY, SECOND 

31, 32, 33, 34, 86. 118. 138. 1(57. 175 
181, 204, 222, 205, 2()(i. 270. 274 
275, 278, 282. 

KANSAS CITY, THIRD 

33, 34, 35, 90. 131. 208. 205. 2(>0 
273. 

KANSAS CITY, FOURTH 

32, 33, 34, 35, 94, 95. 132. 20S. 200 
275, 281. 

KANSAS CITY, FIFTH 

33, 35. 94. 130. 1S4. 2(i(). 27S 
(Kansas City, Hill ]\Ienioi ial ) . . . . 

33, 35. !)5. 20(). 277. 279 
(Kansas Cit}', First Welsh) 

33, 95, 200. 27I» 
KANSAS CITY, LINWOOD 

34, 35, 95. 185. 266, 281 

Kansas City, Central 268. 209. 328 

Kansas City, Belmont ('hapel .... 151 

(Kingsville) 283 

KNOB NOSTER 

34, 85, 88, 131, 182, 284. 306, 307 

Lamonte 91. 195. 286, 307 

(Laynesville) 93. 286 

Lee's Summit 236 

Lexington 

30, 31, 82, 89. 106. 108, 131. 280 

(Little Osage) 

82, 124, 125, 12(i. 149, 200, 206, 213 
251, 287. 

(Little Tebo) 83, 201, 289 



Longivood 106, 194 

LONx^ OAK 89. 141, 289 

LOWRY CITY 95, 290 

MALTA BEND 32, 35. 93. 131. 290 

(Marmiton) 82, 126. 251, 289, 291 

Marshall 30. 31. 82, 226 

Miami. 

MONTROSE 

32, 91. 107, 186. 207, 240, 292 

(Moreau) 85. 200, 215 

(Morristown) 89, 249, 292 

ixMt. Hope) 148 

Mt. Olive. 

Xclson. 

NEVADA 

33, 35. !)2. 93. 131, 192. 293 

(New Fi-ankfoit) 32, 92, 292 

\cic Hope. 

(Oakland) 85 

(Olive Branch) 92, 245, 294 

Odessa . 

OSCEOLA 

32, 33, 35, 83, 88, 118, 128, 179, 200 
235, 294. 

( Otter ville) 88, 297 

(Papinsville) 97, 141, 298 

First Church of Prtfis Coiiiity 

31, 85, 194 

l^isgah 30, 31, 85, 220 

Plecirsaiit Hill 

30, 31, 84, 108, 120. 182. 189, 190 

217, 218, 221, 298. 

(Plea.sant Prairie) 30. 93, 301, 303 

(Post Oak) 84, 124, 302 

Prairie 30, 84, 123. 146, 226 

Prairie Lick. 

( Prosperity) 92, 302 

( Providence ) 94, 302 

Range Line. 

IIAYMORE 

33, 35, 94, 107, 126, 143, 191, 3 



INDEX. 



RICH HILL. . . .33, 35. 93. 107, 143, 304 
( Rockville) 04, 143, 305 

{ai. Thomas) 30, 31, 85 

( Salem, Henry Co. ) 

83, 87, 124, 125, 187, 200, 214, 306 

(Salem, Jackson Co.) 86 

( Salem, Johnson Co. ) 

(Salem, Pettis Co.) 34, 93, 285, 286, 306 

Saline 82 

(Salt Pond) 84 

(Salt Springs) . .31. 32, 35, 93, 131, 307 

SCHELL CITY 32, 93. 303. 309 

( Sedalia, First ) 

32, 33, 87, 101, 112, 150, 194, 310 

SEDALIA, BROADWAY 

34, 35, 91, 150, 19o, 312 

SEDALIA, CENTRAL 

34, 35, 95, 185, 311 

SHARON 33, 93. 247, 249, 313 

Mile 84, 151, 217, 314 

(Smithton) 90, 314 

(South Grand River) 30. 85, 314 

(Strasburg) 221 

(Sugar Creek) . . . .87. 108. 244, 284, 290 

SUNNYSIDE 89, 187, 315 

Sweet Springs 225 

(Tabo) 83, 316 

TIPTON 

32, 33, 88, 107. 112. 117. 175, 297, 316 
TusGumhia. 

(Union) 86 

\'ersailles. 

VISTA 35, 95, 319 

(Wadesburg) 319 

Walker. 
Wallace. 

WARRENSBURG 

31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 85, 108, 124, 172 

182, 202, 215, 319. 
WARSAW 

35, 83, 87, 90, 92, 93, 119, 127, 

128, 142, 157, 160, 187, 289, 322. 



\ Vaverly. 

WESTFIELD . 92, 112, 175, 246, 290, 325 
Westminster. 

(Westpoint) 90, 267, 327 

(Westport) 84, 218, 226, 267, 327 

(Westport, German) 165 

(Windsor) 86, 89, 328 

(Zion) 86 



INDEX OF MINISTERS. 

J. R. Agnew 55 

T. Alexander 233 

J. B. Allen.... 54, 87, 91, 242, 243, 326 

J. W. Allen 53, 85, 88, 90, 91, 

116, 250, 269, 283, 290, 293. . ..300 
R. H. Allen 47, 80, 82, 

83, 116, 217, 257 261 

J. H. Allin 32, 61, 81, 

91, 93, 94, 247 285 

T. H. Allin 60, 93, 303, 306, 310 

W. Asdale..33, 01, 88, 89, 117, 253, 318 

G. F. Ayers. 68 

R. C. Bailey.. 34, 68, 87, 255 

J. H, Baird 50, 84 

W. M. Baird .64, 88, 91, 112, 118 

W. P. Baker 81, 88, 89, 91, 

92, 93, 249, 309, 313 326 

J. Barbee 51, 80, 85, 

90, 290, 308, 310, 314 320 

J. V. Barks 47, 83, 

118, 159, 200, 201, 215, 295, 322, 328 

J. H. Barton 89 

S. C. Bates 63, 81, 88, 93, 285 

G. P. Beard 71 

G. A. Beattie 32, 60, 87, 311 

L. M. Belden 34, 68, 90, 274 

S. B. Bell 32, 58, 85, 121, 270 

W. G. Bell 46, 82, 85, 122, 234, 320 

P. D. Berg^en 94, 112, 278 

C. P. Blayney. . . .58, 81, 89, 92, 94, 304 

A. A. Boyd 

88, 93, 95, 285 311 

T. F. Boyd 64, 88, 93, 285 



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INDEX. 



R. P. Boyd 

J. T. Boyei- 35. 69. 87, 88, 

95, 255 

T. A. Bracken 30, 31, 47, 

80, 83, 84, 85, 123, 219, 258 .... 

C. Bradshaw 46, 82, 83, 

123, 201, 289, 302, 306 

W. L. Breckenridge 53, 84, 85, 

90, 92, 126, 232, 26D, 287, 301, 

J. Brereton 

J. G. Brice 

P. P. Briol 

D. Biwvn 56, 81, 89, 92. 315, 

H. A. Brown 72, 88, 92. 

H. L. Brown . 7 

J. J. Brown 53, 87, 89, 232, 

J. M. Brown 51, 87, 88, 89, 

110, 12/, 154, 235, 243, 296, 315, 

E. S. Brownlee 34, 67. 91, 93, 

C. H. Bruce. 33, 63, 94, 130, 248. 278. 
J. F. Bruner 32, 57, 81, 90, 93, 131. 

G. W. Buchanan 

J. H. Byers 31, 52, 87, 

88, 89, 90, 91, 92. 93, iM, 231, 
245, 275, 284, 28(). 287. 293. 302, 



313 
297 
299 
319 

303 
89 
61 
69 

325 
95 
72 

243 

323 
230 
282 
290 
80 



314 



L. P. Cain 35, 70, 91, 313 

G. M. Caldwell 81, 321 

J. L. Caldwell 301 

H. H. Cambern 

E. V. Campbell 88, 240 

H. M. Campbell 34, 66, 95, 132, 277 

I. W. Canfield 50, 84 

A. D. Carlile. . 81 

N. Carper 103 

A. Carroll 52 

K.M.Carson 87 

W. Carter 35, 71, 85, 270 

J. S. Carutliers 68, 95, 280 

J. D. Catlin 35, 71, 311 

H. Chamberlain 45, 82, 132, 233 

Chambers 89 

W. B. Chancellor. . .- 35, 71, 81, 

90, 91, 93, 251 305 

J. M. Chaney 31. 49, 80, 85, 301 

B. H. Charles 87, 203, 290 



M. Cheever 31, 55, 86, 134, 

A. Clagett 72, 93, 

H. Clark 31, 54, 85, 

W. Clark 30, 31, 

49, 80, 89, 90, 287 

G. Clark 51, 87, 88, 89, 91, 

93, 94, 110, 112, 140, 229, 230, 

231, 235, 243, 249, 250, 252, 254, 

255, 289, 291, 298, 304 

Clemens 63, 93, 

W. Clippinger, 34, 35, 

68, 85, 91, 313 

P. Cochran 45, 82. 144, 

C, Coleman 31, 55, 55, 84, 

89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 247, 

249, 251, 278, 289 

W. Colver 57, 84, 85, 270, 

Cone 90, 142, 

— Conant 

J. Cooke 50, 82, 

M. Cornelison 35, 69, 81, 

Coulter 30, 46, 82, 84, 

85, 106, 146, 243, 252, 261, 299, 

, A. Cravens 60, 88, 93, 

M. Crawford. .. .46. 82, 83, 287, 
R. Crockett 33, 64, 88, 

89, 90, 92, 93, 95, 251, 285, .... 
E. Curry 



272 
94 
321 

307 



305 
94 

321 

233 



30 i 
301 
324 
243 
262 
93 

320 
286 
316 

289 
81 



C. H. Davis 81 

F. Da^ds 47 

W. Dickson 45, 82, 85, 147, 231, 287 

W. T. Dickson 82 

S. Diefendorf 88, 317 

J. M. Dinsmore 70 

R. Dodd 32, 57, 87, 91, 243 

W. R. Dodd 81, 309 

X. B. Dodge 45, 82, 84, lOO, 102, 

148, 201, 256, 265, 288, 289. . . .291 

T. S. Douglas 61, 92, 94, 302, 306 

L. I. Drake 33, 62, 87, 255 

L. Dudley. .59, 90, 92, 93, Lo2, 249, 313 
C. H. Dunlap. .53, 87, 150, 195, 296, 310 

E. P. Dunlap 34, 65, 81, 95, 282 

J. S. Dunning 72, 112 

L. Durland 80 



INDEX. 



J. Edmonson 33, 62, 93, 312 

W. R Echravds 70 

D. Emerson 123, 201 

G. L. Engler 73, 89, 325 

F. B. Everitt 65, 95, 277 

J. G. Fackler. . . .32, 48. 82, 87, 146, 261 

F. R. Farrand 33, 61, 87 

M. M. Fisher 83, 258 

J. W. Fobes 94, 3/8 

D. L. Fordney 89 

J. H. France 81 

G. Eraser ....31, 52, 85, 108, 269, 300 

C. Fueller 32, 58, 85, 321 

W. R. Fulton. .48, 83, 151, 242, 257, 293 

J. Gallaher 83, 157, 289, 322 

0. W. Gauss 33, 62, 94, 151, 263 

J. N. Gilbreath 82, 234 

R. Glenn 48, 83 

G. W. Goodale. .51, 88, 91, 274, 284, 286 

H. P. Goodrich 46, 82, 152, 261 

M. B. W. Granger 35, 71, 

89, 93, 316, 325 

F. R. Gray. . . .47, 83, 217, 256, 316, 327 
S. W. Griffin 64 

E. M. Halbert 52, 80, 

87, 89, 154 315 

N. H. Hall 82 

J. Hancock 50, 85, 220, 267 

1. W. K. Handy 47, 83, 

155, 201, 211 322 

J. B. Harbison 80, 300 

G. W. Harlan 49, 83, 

118, 120, 159, 201, 215 295 

F. Hart 58, 81, 85, 321 

J. J. Hawk 92, 232 

C. W. Hays 81 

G. P. Hays 33, 64, 

86, 161, 272, 276, 281, 282 311 

W. Hays 68, 81 

C. H. Heckmann 47, 165, 327 

P. Heiligmann 67, 90, 275 

C. C. Hembree 62, 90, 250 

W. R. Henderson 60, 87, 255 



J. F. Hendy 35, 69, 94, 

C. D. Herbert 47, 

A. Herrick 

J. Herron..33, 03, 87, 91, 166, 311, 
J. H. Hess 

G. Hickman 46, 

H. Hill 31, 32, 33, 87, 88, 252, 

J. B. Hill 9, 18, 34, 

66, 81, 88. 89, 216, 222, 238, 248, 

253, 270, 277, 290 

T. Hill 11, 16, 51, 86, 100, 110, 

118, 129, 135, 142, 155, 161, 166, 
197, 204, 209, 212, 215, 235, 
237, 238, 265, 27(5, 272, 274, 280, 

308, 313 

W. H. Hillis ... 32, 56, 85, 92, 242, 
F. W. Hinitt 34, 66, 81, 85, 172, 

B. M. Hobson 30, 31, 48, 82, 

B. Hoffman 92, 

E. Hollister 45, 82, 173, 

C. A. Holm 

S. H. Howe 83, 

H. C. Hovey 32, 56, 85, 

173, 267, 269 

B. F. Hoxsey 

J. H. Huffman 

J. M. Hunter , . 93, 

^v . H. Hyatt ,34, 66, 90, 

H. A. Hymes 34, 



264 
83 
89 

312 
81 
82 

254 



318 



324 
321 
321 
287 
302 
233 
81 
258 

270 
82 
80 
314 
275 
69 



J, M. Inskeep 314 

R. Irwin.. 31, 32, 54, 85, 174, 269, 270 
S. M. Irmn 52, 82 



R. H. Jackson 58, 88, 91, 92, 

95, 174, 230, 231, 246, 305, 

E. Jameson 

H. D. Jenkins. .34, 69, 86, 161, 

P. B. Jenkins 35, 70, 81, 

S. D. Jewell 35, 71, 8 

A. J. Johnson 53, 80, 

89, 90, 243, 253, 297 

A. Jones 45, 82^ 

102, 119, 120, 159, 176, 201, 

246, 251, 288, 292, 295 

T. H. Jones 33, 63, 93, 95, 



, 94, 

318, 326 
. ... 81 
175, 273 
, 95, 282 
8, 241. . 
88, 

314 

, 83, 
215, 

306 

279, 314 



884 



INDEX. 



W. G. Keady 32, 56, 87, 263 

H. C. Keele}^ 33, 63, 81, 88, 91, 297 

G. E. Keithley 81 

C. C. Kimball 32, 59, 86, 181, 272 

M. E. Krotzer 35, 70, 94. 304 

B. T. Laeey 312 

J. Laflferty 62, 90, 93, 291, 308 

S. W. Lambeth 80 

D. L. Lander 32. 59, 

90, 93, 286, 290, 306 308 

J. T. Lapsley 31, 49. 84. 

85, 182, 218, 230, 284. 299, 301, 319 

W. J. Lapsley '. 91 

W. J. Lee 32. 56. 87, 254 

C. E. Leonard 314 

J. T. Leonard 30, 49, 80, 85, 8(5. 251, 314 

F. Lippe 57, 92, 293 

C. Lord 46, 83, 257 

W. E. Loucks 35, 72, 90. 275 

S. D. Longhead 50. 82. 202 

B. D. Luther 81. 90. 03. 200. 30S! 

R. L. McAfee. .45, 82. 183, 234, 260. 261 

C. E. McCane 81 

W. McCaughey 61 

A. R. McClellan 81 

S. T. McClure 63 

E. W. MeClusky 35, 69, 

88, 89, 95, 253. 277, 280 318 

I. P. McCurdy 35, 70. 94, 184, 279 

A. McDougall 64, 93, 305 

J. C. McFall 81 

F. MeFarland 82, 233 

J. MeFarland 80 

J. A. P. McGaw . . .34, 67, 95, 185, 282 

C. C. McGinley 35, 73, 259 

W. E. Mack 33, 61, 90, 275 

J. L. McKee 35, 72, 94, 279 

C. C. McKinney 35, 73, 

81, 83, 90, 91, 93, 143, 291 309 

A. McLaren 65, 88, 91, 93, 95, 319 

G. W. McMillan 54, 88, 89, 239, 289 

J. McMillan. .119, 120, 123, 154, 159, 201 

D. McNaughton 53, 88, 

89, 90, 92, 249 327 



W. McReynolds 

D. Madeira 72, 83, 

M. Mann 93, 

W. Marshall 112, 

R. Marquis 34, 65. 95, 185, 

B. Martin 33. 61, 

90, 91, 230, 274. 275 

M, Martin 

J, Matthews 53, 

F. Matthews 

J. May 67, 89, 90, 

92, 93, 95, 248, 253. 289. 314. . 
Mayou 34. 65, 90, 

91, 92, 186, 230 

Mechatt 

S, Mesmer 51. 87. 186. 

Miller.... 31, 33, 50, 80, 84, 85, 
90, 91, 92, 93, 105, 127, 147, 
187, 232, 244, 249, 250, 253. 

267, 268, 287 294, 299 

H. Miller 32, 33, 35, 56, 86, 

87, 93, 94, 266, 273, 275, 278, 

279, 294, 305, 311 

H. Miller 

C. Milner 53. 88, 

90, 168, 275, 296 

W. Milster 33, 82, 

Mitchell 

W. Mitchell. .50, 82, 88, 80, 91, 

92, 93, 235, 301, 302, 315. 325, 
L. Mitchell 

A. Moffett 91, 112, 

V. Montfort 52, 88, 297, 

Montgomery. .31, 50, 83, 85, 87. 

90, 91, 108, 150. 193, 258, 310, 

312 

, B. Montgomery 45, 100, 103, 

Moore 59, 

W, Morrison 119, 120, 

123, 159, 201 

R. Morrison 48, 83, 119, 120, 

123, 154, 159, 160, 161, 197, 210, 

Morrison 89, 

Morton 82, 

G. Morton 33, 62, 87, 



82 
259 
314 
242 
311 

281 
242 
129 
66 

315 

251 
219 
324 



303 



317 
81 

324 
92 
81 

328 
80 
230 
317 



320 
196 



215 

295 
253 
234 



INDEX. 



E. Muse 31, 52, 

85, 108, 202, 283, 284, 320. . . . 328 

H. A. Nelson. .62, 83. 169, 202, 258, 262 

W. P. Nelson. . . .34, 67, 81. 88, 90, 275 

A. W. Nesbit 91, 312 

W. M. Newton 32, 33, 

55, 82, 88. 91, 92, 94. 95, 207, 

230, 240, 290, 298, 304, 309 326 

F. Y. Nichols 81 

E. P. Noel 46, 83. 123, 200, 295 

A. North 88, 237, 317 

C. D. Nott 54, 86, 204, 272 

M. Palmer 102 

A. H. Parks 89, 315, 328 

W. H. Pawling 30, 48, 83, 257 

H. M. Paynter. .49, 82, 85, 194, 204, 234 
J. Pierce 82 

B. Pixley. . . .45, 100. 102, 196, 205, 256 

J. Piatt 59 

J. S. Poage 57, 92, 242, 243 

W. M. Pocock 34, 65, 87, 206, 290 

F. Pollock 81 

W. G. Pollock 33, 64, 95, 277, 281 

A. Pomeroy 45, 82, 233 

J.N.Pope. 72 

B. F. Powelson 

54, 82, 83, 91, 200, 246, 292 

M. B. Price 83, 257 

W. F. Price 34, 68, 91, 313 

J. A. Quarles 83, 84, 287 

W. S. Rae 88 

L. Railsback 57, 89, 

90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 207, 250, 
253, 274, 275, 292, 304, 314 ... 315 

P. Read 54, 87, 88, 89, 232, 252 

W. M. Read 58, 88, 89, 

91, 92, 93, 235, 289, 302, 309, 326 
R. S. Reese, 50, 80, 85, 86, 88, 243, 

285, 319 328 

T. S. Reeve 47, 111, 274 

F. J. Reichert 80 



G. A. M. Renshaw 46, 83, 

123, 200, 201 210 

W. C. Requa, 48^ 84, 89, 102, 103, 

119, 120, 159, 196, 201, 2n, 215, 289 

B. W. Reynolds ? 231 

C. L. Reynolds 81, 89, 289 

I. B. Ricketts 46, 83, 

120, 123, 159, 201 295 

A. T. Robertson 59, 81, 84, 

90, 92, 94, 232, 250, 301 303 

W. H. Roberts 90 

W. H. Rogers 60, 90, 250 

J. M. Ross 35, 72, 85, 321 

J. B. Ruby 315 

B. Ryland 47, 83, 123, 201 



J. 

D. 

A. 

G. 

W. 

H. 

E. 

W. 

H. 
A. 

W. 

A. 
J. 
G. 
N. 

W, 



W. Sanderson 94, 278 

S. Schaff 32, 60. 85, 213, 270 

V. C. Schenck. .30, 48, 80, 82, 284, 319 

K. Scott 51, 83, 258 

Semple 69, 91, 94 

H. Shawhan 69 

B. Sherwood 110, 252 

F. Shields 33, 65, 

93, 95, 112, 247, 148 314 

M. Shockley 32, 58, 87, 301, 311 

Shotwell 49, 84 

Sickles 67, 81, 

93, 95, 247, 289, 310 314 

C. V. Skinner 81, 90, 308 

J. Slocom 46, 83 

Smith..., 92 

H. Smith 52, 108 

H. Smith 47, 82, 

83, 119, 120, 159, 201, 214.... 306 

B. Sproule 65, 90, 

91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 230, 235. .. . 314 

C. Stanton 34, 66, 85, 270 

Stfauss 56, SI, 92, 290 

K. Steele 33, 62, 85, 215, 321 

D. Stephenson 191, 312 

E. Stevenson 72, 91, 94, 304 

R. Stevenson 34, 65, 81, 91, 313 

E. Stringfield 81, 91 

Stuart 48, 83 



336 



INDEX, 



C, Sturdevant 51, 90, 108, 250, 300 

F. C. Schwartz 58, 92, 293 

H. M. Sydenstriker 90. 308 

R. S. Symington 30, 31, 

47, 83, 84, 85, 91, 148, 216, 235, 
257, 265, 267, 299 300 

J. W. Talbot. .81. 87, 89, 90, 92, 232, 249 

A. G. Taylor 51, 120, 123, 

155, 159 201 

C. A. Taylor 242 

J. C. Taylor 33, 61, 

89, 94, 95, 278, 280 289 

S. E. Taylor 80, 242 

W. G. Thomas 60 

C. L. Thompson 

32, 60, 86, 171, 221, 272 
J. Thompson. .59, 88, 89, 90, 92, 93, 

94, 243, 249, 250, 289, 304, 313, 314 

J. A. Thompson 81 

J. C. Thornton 55, 80, 91, 284, 286 

\V. F. Van der Lippe 32, 35, 

71, 91, 94, 235 247 

J. W. Van Eman 67, 91, 94 

J. S. Van Meter 35, 71, 87 

A. E. Vanorden 70, 81, 

89, 91, 92, 243 253 

J. B. Vawter 56, 90, 92. 232, 

249, 315 325 

J. a. Venable . .91, 92, 93, 230, 302, 309 

W. E. Voss 34, 65, 91, 93, 94, 306 

T. B. Vrooman 90, 275 

E. Wachter 66 



A. Walker 32, 56, 81, 88, 

00, 222, 241, 247, 254, 297, 314, 317 

J. W. Wallace 49, 83, 85, 86 

W. G. F. Wallace 91, 312 

W. T. Wardle 34, 66, 87, 255 

A. E. Wardner, Jr 73, 81 

S. M. Ware 33, 63, 87 

J. F. Watkins 32, 33, 34, 57, 

86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 
231, 235, 241, 246, 251, 253,263, 

289, 292, 297, 305, 315, 318, 325, 326 

W. Weatherstone 70, 95, 277 

D. Weir 46, 201 

S. H. Weller 61 

J. B. Welty 34, 67, 95, 277 

J. Wettle 49 

J. E. Wheeler 83, 91, 195, 258, 312 

J. A. WhitMker 31, 32, 

54, 87, 262, 316 324 

H. C. White. .71, 88, 91, 92, 93, 243, 286 

W. H. Wieman. .33, 61, 81, 93, 287, 305 

G.W.Wilkinson 46, 83 

G. H. Williamson 34, 68, 94, 264 

D. A. Wilson 55 

G. P. Wilson 33, 64, 85, 270 

J. V. A. Woods 57, 90, 250 

J. V. Worsham 312 

E. W. P. Wyatt 88, 240 

C. A. Wylie 85 

J. L. Yantis 45, 82, 83, 85, 91, 

104, 217, 224, 256, 265, 268... 287 

J. Young 53, 89, 91, 227, 243, 253 

J. C. Y^oung 94 

S. E. Y^oung 253 



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